The well-known Brazilian psychic ‘Joao de Deus’ (‘John of God’), that hundreds of women accused of sexual aggression, has been reported to the police. Messages to various Brazilian media. The man’s name is his real name Joao Teixeira de Faria, is 76 years old and he received in his “temple” in Abadiania, near the capital, Brasilia, every week thousands of followers that wanted him to be healed.
As a healer claimed Joao Teixeira Faria the Faria about so-called special gifts, and he did on “spiritual healing”. Last week’s burst, however, a scandal around him loose, after some of the women in a documentary on channel TV Globo testified how they become the victim were of sexual violence during “spiritual healings”. The women said that they were forced to masturbation and fellatio.
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In an interview with the magazine Veja said Dalva Teixeira, the daughter of Joao de Deus, that they from her tenth to her fifteenth year, had been abused sexually by her father. They had fled after he was beginning to save, because she was pregnant. “My father is a monster,” said the Brazilian, who is now 49 years old.
After the broadcast of the report on Globo TV, came hundreds of women come out with testimonies about similar facts. In addition to Brazilian women, there are also complaints of victims from Belgium, Germany, Austria, Bolivia, the USA and Switzerland. And also the last three presidents of Brazil have called on his services.
The police had him active to start tracking when he last week Tuesday, five days after the tv broadcast, for € 8 million money before you left of his bank account. The Brazilian court wrote prompt an arrest warrant out against him, because they feared that the country would from flights.
The last days of Joao de Deus, with court and police negotiated his surrender. That is Sunday ended with his surrender to the court.