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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Higüey, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic · 2025

Víctor Manuel Kery and Robinson Peguero: convictions after overnight church vigils

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Appellate history

  • 2025-06-25

    Peguero's counsel announced an appeal. The initial review did not locate a later appellate decision through July 16, 2026.

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor known as El Pastor, religious figure known as El Profeta

Organization

unnamed church in Higüey

Archive classification

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

The cited record identifies church vigils, overnight access to children, paternal religious trust, and mortification practice as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is pastor known as El Pastor and religious figure known as El Profeta.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-06-24 · trial judgments and sentences

    Collegiate Court of La Altagracia, Dominican Republic. The court sentenced Kery to ten years for aggravated sexual assault and Peguero to five years for sexual assault. Peguero's counsel announced an appeal. Court records identify Kery as a recidivist, carrying a prior conviction under sentencia 185-2021-SSEN-00372.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • church vigils
  • overnight access to children
  • paternal religious trust
  • mortification practice

Cited record

Sources

court reporting judgment report Diario Libre, 'Condenan a pastor y profeta en Higüey por agresión a menores' (June 25, 2025).

Detailed contemporaneous court reporting identifies both defendants, the trial court, distinct convictions and sentences, child victims, church-vigil access and Peguero's announced appeal.

court reporting judgment corroboration Listín Diario, 'Tribunal condena a prisión a pastor y profeta por agresión sexual a menores en Higüey' (June 25, 2025).

Independent court reporting corroborates the convictions, sentences, victim ages and religious roles.

court reporting procedural context Diario Libre, 'El pastor Víctor Kery está implicado en abuso sexual' (July 8, 2024).

Pretrial reporting documents the alleged church-vigil and overnight cilicio practices and records Kery's separate 2021 conviction with a suspended sentence. That earlier matter is contextual and not combined with the 2025 sentence.

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report El Nuevo Diario (Dominican Republic), archived 26 Jun. 2025.

Archived mirror of the prosecutor's release; the PGR's own page returns an error.

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https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/justicia/2025/06/25/condenan-a-pastor-y-profeta-en-higuey-por-agresion-a-menores/3162541 Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 8c31ca0849c86d21b0e9acc2818257e17bb3fc6e8469c50a8bcc99abd4c680eb
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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https://listindiario.com/la-republica/justicia/20250625/tribunal-condena-prision-pastor-agresion-sexual-menores-higuey_863403.html Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-corroboration. SHA-256 52874dcf2855f4aba74cc54532c1276c756e365c7a7ecd4a76c52cf4978e70f3
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/sucesos/2024/07/08/el-pastor-victor-kery-esta-implicado-en-abuso-sexual/2780364 Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: procedural-context. SHA-256 33b681fef09f1d3be76d2cc4ca6dafce1be1341c06a8e095689669ce91f6f4b7
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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http://web.archive.org/web/20250626132733/https://elnuevodiario.com.do/diez-anos-de-prision-para-pastor-por-agresion-sexual-agravada-contra-dos-adolescentes-en-higuey/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 48ffc358362a5f642e57e6fe5cc7b1d64be46184f74ee765b54ed318bfceae22
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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