Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil · 2026

Brazil: ex-priest convicted of raping a nine-year-old he approached under cover of 2024 flood relief at his parish

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest of Paróquia Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Guaíba

Organization

Paróquia Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul

Spiritual nexus

A parish priest leveraged both his clerical office and the trust generated by his church's flood-relief role to isolate and abuse a child under his pastoral reach.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Other spiritual authority or belief

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2026-05-26 · conviction

1ª Vara Criminal de Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul. Diego da Silva Correa, 44, a former priest of the Nossa Senhora de Fátima parish, was convicted by Judge Andreia da Silveira Machado of rape of a vulnerable person and possession of child sexual-abuse material, and sentenced to 18 years and 10 months in closed regime. The court found he used the trust generated by the May 2024 Rio Grande do Sul flood disaster, in which the parish provided aid, to approach and abuse a nine-year-old girl between May and August 2024.

Documented coercion mechanisms

clerical authority combined with disaster-relief trust
parish access used to isolate the child

Primary record

Sources

local newspaper court reporting sentencing report 'Ex-padre que atuou em Guaíba é condenado a 18 anos de prisão por estupro e pornografia infantil', Repórter Guaibense, 2026.: Local court reporting naming the convicted priest, parish, judge, and sentence.
national newspaper report sentencing report 'Padre é condenado por estupro de vulnerável durante enchentes no RS', Metrópoles, 2026.: National outlet corroboration of the flood-relief pretext and sentence.

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