Brazil: pai de santo sentenced to 259 years for rapes framed as a 'purification process'
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pai de santo
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The prosecution's own framing is that manipulated religious trust enabled the harm: the purification doctrine bound both family and non-family victims, which distinguishes this from purely domestic cases — the ritual claim, not the household, is what made refusal impossible for girls across his circle.
- Ritual, oath, or initiation
- Threatened spiritual consequence
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2025-01-01 · conviction and sentence
2ª Vara Judicial de Três de Maio, Rio Grande do Sul; Ministério Público do RS. A pai de santo was sentenced to 259 years in closed regime for raping seven girls under 14 between 2009 and 2024 — including stepdaughters, a granddaughter, and other girls within his religious circle — telling them the rapes were part of a 'processo de purificação' and demanding secrecy under threat.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- rapes presented as a required 'purification process'
- secrecy demanded under threat
- religious trust of families in his circle
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- official prosecuting authority conviction release Ministério Público do Rio Grande do Sul, release no. 61968 (2025).
The state prosecution service's release on the conviction, the 259-year sentence, and the purification pretext.
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- https://www.mprs.mp.br/noticias/61968/ Corpus classification: official-prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: conviction-release. SHA-256 d62723cc156dc416c56eba32a87233c1d519ac29d97ff39623743d627174c8e8
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