Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Quebec City, Quebec, Canada · 2025

Quebec: pastor jailed four years for assaulting a congregant who called him her spiritual father

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Pentecostal pastor regarded by the victim as her spiritual father

Organization

Église universelle de Jésus-Christ

Spiritual nexus

The complainant was a member of Kasongo's congregation who regarded him as her spiritual father; the assaults occurred inside private prayer sessions, where that pastoral authority was the operative means of access and compliance.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Threatened spiritual consequence

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2025-06-04 · conviction and sentence

Court of Quebec, Canada. Pastor Guy John Imani Kasongo was convicted of sexual assault against a woman in her twenties from his congregation, committed between February and April 2025, and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. The court heard he used private prayer sessions to escalate from touching to penetration.

Documented coercion mechanisms

private prayer sessions
the 'spiritual father' relationship and the deference it carried

Primary record

Sources

public broadcaster court reporting verdict and sentencing report '4 ans de prison pour un pasteur qui a agressé sexuellement une fidèle', Radio-Canada, 4 June 2025.: Canada's public broadcaster reports the conviction, the four-year sentence and the spiritual-father relationship described in court.

Related record

Related cases · Christian institutions & contexts

← Explore all cases