Indonesia: dukun convicted of raping a patient during a healing session
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dukun (traditional healer)
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The victim was a patient who submitted to the healer's treatment — the session itself was the mechanism of access.
- Spiritual healing or treatment
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2025-10-08 · conviction and sentence
Pengadilan Negeri Pamekasan, Indonesia. A dukun identified as MB, 48, was convicted under Article 285 of the criminal code of raping his 20-year-old patient during a healing session in Dusun Ahatan, and sentenced on 8 October 2025 to four years — below the prosecution's six-year demand, a leniency the victim's family criticised.
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- healing session as the setting and pretext
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- reliable contemporaneous court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Dukun cabul di Pamekasan divonis 4 tahun penjara', Media Jatim, 8 Oct. 2025.
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- https://mediajatim.com/2025/10/08/dukun-cabul-di-pamekasan-divonis-4-tahun-penjara-keluarga-korban-mengaku-belum-lega/ Corpus classification: reliable-contemporaneous-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 921502ef1a60e196258875af0fb7c59679071eca51f696010ca9fd8ad79d6b1d
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