Brazilian Baby Trafficker Sentenced to 99 years

“A celebrity faith healer who is accused of abusing over 600 women ran a baby trafficking operation where children were then sold to childless couples.

Joao Teixeira de Faria, 77, was arrested on December 17 on the outskirts of Abadiania, in rural Brazil on rape charges.

De Faria, who is also known as ‘John of God’, became a wanted man after a bombshell late night chat show on Brazil’s Globo TV network aired accusations from ten women of abuse at his Casa de Dom Inacio de Loyola in Abadiania.

Now the activist Sabrina Bittencourt – whose investigations lead to his arrest – claims the celebrity medium ran a baby trafficking operation where children were ‘farmed’ in Brazil before being sold to childless couples around the world.

She alleges that young girls were held captive in remote farms where they were forced to produce babies – before being murdered after ten years of giving birth.

Bittencourt told the Mirror that she spoke to women from at least three continents, including Europe, who claimed they bought Brazilian babies from John of God for as much as $50,000.

She said she spoke to former members of Teixeira’s gang, who described how the scheme worked, after they became ‘tired of being complicit’ in his crimes.

Bittencourt, who now lives outside Brazil, claimed Teixeira would offer money to poor girls, aged 14 to 18, to go and live in mineral mines or farms he owns in the Brazilian states of Goias and Minas Gerais.

There they would become sex slaves, repeatedly forcibly impregnated and their babies ripped from their arms.

She claims: ‘In exchange for food, they were impregnated and their babies sold on the black market.

‘Hundreds of girls were enslaved over years, lived on farms in Goias, served as wombs to get pregnant, for their babies to be sold.

‘These girls were murdered after 10 years of giving birth. We have got a number of testimonies.’

She added: ‘We have received reports from the adoptive mothers of their children that we sold for between $20,000 and $50,000 in Europe, USA and Australia, as well as testimony from ex-workers and local people who are tired of being complicit with John of God’s gang.’

Appealing for others with knowledge of Teixeira’s crimes to come forward, she said: ‘I ask that the embassies of Holland, USA and Australia demand an impeccable conduct from the Brazilian authorities.’

In December last year, Dutch choreographer Zahira Lieneke Mous, as well as an American witness, along with nine anonymous women alleged sexual abuse by Faria on a Brazilian TV show.

After the initial interview on TV authorities were reportedly contacted by more than 600 other accusers, including Faria’s adult daughter, Dalva Teixeira.

His 49-year-old daughter told magazine Veja, that under the pretense of mystical treatments her ‘monster’ father abused and raped her between the ages of ten and 14.

She told the magazine that he stopped after she became pregnant by one of his employees.

Upon learning she was pregnant, Dalva told the magazine that her father beat her so ferociously that she suffered a miscarriage.

He went on the run as his reputation – which had been built up over several decades – was tarnished.

Court documents show that he had attempted to withdraw nearly $8 million before surrendering to police on charges of rape.

The elderly medium, who has been interviewed by Oprah and has treated Bill Clinton, was pursued after skipping a deadline to hand himself in.

According to a video released by the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, Faria said: ‘I surrender to divine justice and justice on Earth.’

Police say they discovered a suitcase crammed with $300,000 worth of Brazilian reals and bunches of emeralds they have yet to appraise in his home.

Representatives for the law office representing Faria have decline to comment on the case.

He denies all of the charges against him.

Faria rose to international fame for his ‘psychic surgeries’ that he claimed could cure diseases, including cancer.”

Disgraced Brazilian faith healer accused of running BABY farms where girls were raped, their infants sold to childless couples around the world, and murdered after ten years of repeatedly giving birth
[Daily Mail 2/1/19 by Leah McDonald]

“Conexão Política reported: This Monday, the 10th, the medium, better known as João de Deus, was sentenced to an additional sentence of 99 years in prison for sexual crimes.“

Oprah’s Spiritual Healer, Sentenced To 99 Years For Raping Girls, Accused of ‘Baby Trafficking
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