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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent San Martín, Mendoza, Argentina · 2025

Argentina: pastor convicted of statutory rape aggravated by his status as 'minister of a cult'

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

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Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The statutory aggravating factor the court applied was explicitly the defendant's status as a minister of a religious cult over a congregant of his father's church, where the abuse both began (at a church camp) and partly occurred (inside the church).

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

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Proceedings

  1. 2025-07-08 · Abbreviated trial (guilty plea) and sentencing

    San Martín, Mendoza, Argentina. Convicted of statutory rape aggravated by minister-of-cult status; three years' conditional imprisonment

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Sources

Página/12 (2025) 'Pastor evangélico condenado en Mendoza por abuso sexual'. Available at: pagina12.com.ar (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: In an abbreviated trial, 28-year-old pastor Fernando Nehemías Coronel Fanin was convicted to three years' conditional imprisonment for 'estupro agravado por ser ministro de culto' (statutory rape aggravated by being a minister of a cult), for a six-month course of abuse in 2022 against a 15-year-old girl who attended his father's church in San Martín, Mendoza -- the 'Centro de Vida' church -- beginning with a kiss at a church camp and escalating to repeated sexual contact at a medical office and inside the church itself.

Página/12 (2025) 'Pastor evangélico condenado en Mendoza por abuso sexual'. Available at: pagina12.com.ar (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: In an abbreviated trial, 28-year-old pastor Fernando Nehemías Coronel Fanin was convicted to three years' conditional imprisonment for 'estupro agravado por ser ministro de culto' (statutory rape aggravated by being a minister of a cult), for a six-month course of abuse in 2022 against a 15-year-old girl who attended his father's church in San Martín, Mendoza -- the 'Centro de Vida' church -- beginning with a kiss at a church camp and escalating to repeated sexual contact at a medical office and inside the church itself.

Infobae (2025) 'Mendoza: un pastor evangelista admitió que abusó de una menor pero no irá preso'. Available at: infobae.com (Accessed 2026-07-19).

Infobae (2025) 'Mendoza: un pastor evangelista admitió que abusó de una menor pero no irá preso'. Available at: infobae.com (Accessed 2026-07-19).

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