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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Heredia and San José, Costa Rica · 2025

Carlos Chavarría Fonseca: affirmed thirty-six-year sentence and a later child-rape conviction

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Appellate history

  • 2022-07-15

    The chamber affirmed the thirty-six-year sentence for the congregant cases.

Record class

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor, spiritual guide, confessor, leader of Iglesia Generación 3:16

Organization

Iglesia Generación 3:16

Archive classification

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The cited record identifies pastoral counseling access, spiritual-guide authority, manipulation of congregants, and church institutional access as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is pastor, spiritual guide, confessor, and leader of Iglesia Generación 3:16.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-08-27 · trial judgment

    Heredia Criminal Court, Costa Rica. The court convicted Chavarría of three rapes and four sexual-abuse offenses involving six congregants and imposed an aggregate thirty-six-year prison sentence; it acquitted him on fourteen other charged counts.

  2. 2022-07-15 · cassation judgment

    Criminal Cassation Chamber of Costa Rica. The chamber affirmed the thirty-six-year conviction and sentence.

  3. 2025-09-23 · separate trial judgment

    San José Criminal Court, Costa Rica. The court imposed a separate twelve-year sentence for raping a nine-year-old child at an institute operated by the church.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral counseling access
  • spiritual-guide authority
  • manipulation of congregants
  • church institutional access

Cited record

Sources

court reporting appellate disposition Semanario Universidad, 'Sala de Casación ratifica sentencia de 36 años para pastor de los ricos condenado por violación' (Aug. 1, 2022).

Appellate reporting records the affirmed thirty-six-year sentence, seven sustained sexual offenses, six congregants and the pastoral guide, confessor and superior relationship described in the judgment.

prosecuting authority trial record Ministerio Público de Costa Rica, 'Fiscalía pide 56 años de cárcel contra pastor acusado de cometer delitos sexuales' (Aug. 11, 2021).

The official prosecution release identifies the alleged mechanism as manipulation and deception through Chavarría's position as pastor and spiritual guide and records the pastoral-counseling setting.

high quality reporting separate judgment Teletica, '"Pastor de los Ricos" sentenciado a 12 años de cárcel por violar a niña de nueve años' (Sept. 25, 2025).

Contemporaneous reporting quotes the prosecution and records the separate twelve-year conviction, the child's age and the church-operated institute where the offense occurred.

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https://semanariouniversidad.com/pais/sala-de-casacion-ratifica-sentencia-de-38-anos-para-pastor-de-los-ricos-condenado-por-violacion/ Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-disposition. SHA-256 c24db6d3560c3f4b8d38480bda909ff6aff3660ad92dc70eeeec9a617c065a20
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed
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https://www.teletica.com/nacional/pastor-de-los-ricos-sentenciado-a-12-anos-de-carcel-por-violar-a-nina-de-nueve-anos_393114 Corpus classification: high-quality-reporting; evidentiary role: separate-judgment. SHA-256 1b6e8ecd0a5a99682ffaeace4b464ba3520adb1df867c035928b72550f3de9c9
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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