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Brazil: Foursquare Church pastor convicted of sexually harassing minors in his youth counselling group

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As leader of the church's youth counselling group, the defendant held direct pastoral and instructional authority over minor congregants inside a weekend religious-study setting he ran himself.

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2025-05-26 · First-instance conviction and sentencing

Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil. Convicted of sexual harassment (four counts); community-service sentence

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NewsSE (2025) 'Justiça de Sergipe condena pastor Lucas Abreu por assédio sexual contra menores de idade'. Available at: newsse.com.br (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: On 26 May 2025 the Sergipe justice system convicted pastor Lucas Abreu, of the Foursquare Church (Igreja do Evangelho Quadrangular) in Aracaju, of sexual harassment against four congregants, two of whom were minors aged 13 and 15 at the time. The original complaint charged rape of a vulnerable person; the classification was reduced to harassment during trial. Abreu led an adolescent counselling group that met weekends for religious study, and it was within that setting that the offences occurred; his father, co-pastor Luiz Antônio, was also indicted in the same investigation.: NewsSE (2025) 'Justiça de Sergipe condena pastor Lucas Abreu por assédio sexual contra menores de idade'. Available at: newsse.com.br (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: On 26 May 2025 the Sergipe justice system convicted pastor Lucas Abreu, of the Foursquare Church (Igreja do Evangelho Quadrangular) in Aracaju, of sexual harassment against four congregants, two of whom were minors aged 13 and 15 at the time. The original complaint charged rape of a vulnerable person; the classification was reduced to harassment during trial. Abreu led an adolescent counselling group that met weekends for religious study, and it was within that setting that the offences occurred; his father, co-pastor Luiz Antônio, was also indicted in the same investigation.
Fan F1 (2025) 'Justiça condena pastor Lucas Abreu por assédio sexual de fiéis em Sergipe'. Available at: fanf1.com.br (Accessed 2026-07-19).: Fan F1 (2025) 'Justiça condena pastor Lucas Abreu por assédio sexual de fiéis em Sergipe'. Available at: fanf1.com.br (Accessed 2026-07-19).

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