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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Los Alcarrizos, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · 2025

Johan Manuel Castillo Ortega: ten-year sentence for abuse of six child congregants

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Record class

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

religious leader, church authority over child congregants

Organization

unnamed church in Los Alcarrizos

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies religious persona, congregational trust, and church access to children as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is religious leader and church authority over child congregants.

  • Other spiritual authority or belief

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-08-19 · trial judgment and sentence

    Second Collegiate Court of Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic. The court convicted Castillo Ortega of sexual offenses against six girls and adolescents and imposed ten years in prison.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious persona
  • congregational trust
  • church access to children

Cited record

Sources

prosecuting authority sentencing report Procuraduría General de la República Dominicana, 'Diez años de prisión para religioso que agredió sexualmente a seis niñas y adolescentes en Los Alcarrizos' (Aug. 19, 2025).

The official prosecution report identifies the defendant, court, conviction, ten-year sentence, six child victims and use of a religious figure to gain access to church congregants.

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https://pgr.gob.do/diez-anos-de-prision-para-religioso-que-agredio-sexualmente-a-seis-ninas-y-adolescentes-en-los-alcarrizos/ Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 20fe21b9979bfa113ecca4051013e2193f9d888e07c28db3a2afe10771533052
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