John Of God Sentenced To 118 Years For Rape After Oprah-Promoted Healer Scandal Shocks Brazil
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Brazil’s most prolific alleged spiritual healer is now its most prolific convicted rapist, and the woman who made him famous on prime-time television has barely said a word about it since.
João Teixeira de Faria, the self-proclaimed medium who built a global spiritual empire from a small town in central Brazil, has accumulated criminal sentences totalling 489 years and four months in prison.
The figure is the result of multiple successive verdicts handed down by the courts of the state of Goiás across several years. The case has forced an uncomfortable reckoning not only with Brazil’s faith-healing industry, but with the Western celebrities and media outlets that gave it an international audience.
The Sentence That Shocked Brazil
On 15 September 2023, Goiás state criminal court Judge Marcos Boechat sentenced Faria to 118 years, six months and 15 days in prison. The ruling grouped 17 cases against Faria, covering charges of rape, rape via fraud, and rape of a vulnerable individual, according to the Goiás court’s official statement, as reported by Agence France-Presse. That sentence alone would keep a man behind bars for longer than the average human lifespan, yet it was not even his first conviction.
The Goiás courts had first found Faria guilty of rape in December 2019, handing down a sentence of 19 years and four months for the sexual assault of four women. A month into 2020, a second guilty verdict added another 40 years for five additional victims. Further sentences for sexual crimes followed, and a separate conviction for illegal firearms possession was also recorded.
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