The National Police arrested a 74-year-old man in Valencia accused of sexually assaulted five women in a yoga center, as reported by Headquarters in a press release.
The man worked as an instructor of this meditation practice and would subjugate his victims into believing they were responsible for serious illnesses in their children or damage they had caused in past lives, manipulating them into believing that only way to heal He was sexually submissive on several occasions. He was placed in temporary prison.
The investigation began when agents of the Family and Feminine Care Unit (UFAM), of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of Valencia, learned that a woman had been the victim of a sexual assault caused by a man who worked as a yoga teacher. in a center for this type of meditation practices.
After initial investigations, investigators linked this event to four other events of a similar nature that occurred in the near future, during which the stories of all the victims shared similar characteristics.
A leader with the “Absolute Truth”
Continuing the investigation and after analyzing the suspect’s “modus operandi”, the police determined that this man was pretending to be a “charismatic, messianic and dogmatic” leader being “the only one to have a channel of communication with God” and to dominate a vertical theocratic structure in which he possessed the “Absolute Truth”, which made it easier for him to manipulate victims.
Concretely, the man made the victims believe that they were responsible for the serious illnesses of their children or the damage they had caused in their previous lives, by manipulating them to make them believe that the only way to heal was to be sexually subjected on several occasions.
The man, to provide the emotional support the victims needed, offered them individual meditation classes in order to expel negative energies and forced them to take these classes naked to avoid energy interference.
Once the victims were subjugated, the degree of domination was such that they were unable to defend themselves and under his total control, the man began the sexual assaults, justifying his attitude under the pretext of being the only path to recovery.
National Police officers set up a surveillance system and located the alleged perpetrator while he was on his way to his home, at which time he was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of five sexual assault offenses , including one with penetration. The detainee, of Spanish origin, entered temporary prison.
About a month ago, UFAM National Police agents also arrested a man, a yoga teacher, in Valencia, accused of sexually abusing several female students during classes. The police received various complaints, initially from six victims, who allegedly suffered sexual assault – touching – during yoga classes.
