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<h5 id="page-nav"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong> </strong><strong>Nicaraguan pastor was sentenced to 36 years in prison for killing a woman thrown naked onto a fire during an exorcism in Managua, Nicaragua</strong></span></h5>
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<h5><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Evangelical pastor Juan Rocha, four of his disciples, accused of tying up mother-of-two Vilma Trujillo for nearly a week in February</strong></span></h5>
<h5><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>They denied her food and water at the El Cortezal chapel</strong></span><br />
<span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Finally, they threw Trujillo naked into a burning pile of wood to drive the “demons” from her body</strong></span></h5>
<h5><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Family members eventually rescued her, but she died a week later from the severe burns.</strong></span></h5>
<h5><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>The &#8216;exorcists&#8217; claim the victim was possessed but denied killing her, that the callous murder was driven by divine revelation</strong></span></h5>
<h5><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Pastor Rocha, 23, his siblings Tomasa Rocha and Pedro Rocha, and Franklin Jarquin and Esneyda Orozco, were convicted Tuesday of murder</strong></span></h5>
<h5><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>The five men received the maximum 30-year term each murder. All but Orozco got six additional years for the woman’s illegal detention</strong></span></h5>
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<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-181669" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/juan-gregorio-rocha-vilma-trujillo-garcia.jpg" alt="Juan Gregorio Rocha Vilma Trujillo Garcia .jpg" width="664" height="441" /><strong>Pastor Juan Rocha [right] guarded by police during a court hearing in Managua. He was convicted for murder and will serve 30 years in jail</strong></h6>
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<p class="story-body__introduction">An evangelical Nicaraguan pastor and four followers have been sentenced to over 30 years for burning a woman to death in an alleged exorcism ritual.<br />
Vilma Trujillo, 25, died in February after being tied up and thrown on a fire.<br />
The group had denied killing her and said she was possessed by the devil.<br />
&#8220;The suffering that Trujillo was subjected to is something no human being should go through,&#8221; said judge Alfredo Silva.<br />
Pastor Juan Rocha, 23, plus his siblings Tomasa and Pedro Rocha, and Franklin Jarquin and Esneyda Orozco, were convicted of murder.</p>
<h6 class="story-body__introduction"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-181667" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pastor-juan-rocha-with-head-in-hands-and-his-four-followers-were-tried-in-the-town-of-managua.jpg" alt="Pastor Juan Rocha (with head in hands) and his four followers were tried in the town of Managua.jpg" width="660" height="371" /><strong>Pastor Juan Rocha [head in hands] and his four followers shown during trial in Managua, Nicaragua</strong></h6>
<p><span class="credit img__credit">Evangelical pastor Juan Rocha, 23, along with four disciples, was found guilty Tuesday of tying up mom-of-two Vilma Trujillo for nearly a week in February and denying her food and water at the El Cortezal chapel that Rocha ran.<br />
They threw Trujillo naked into a burning pile of wood to drive the “demons” from her body. Family members eventually rescued her, but she died a week later from the severe burns.<br />
Rocha and the four others – his brothers Tomasa Rocha and Pedro Rocha, and Franklin Jarquin and Esneyda Orozco — testified that they believed Trujillo was possessed but denied killing her.<br />
They blamed the fatal act on divine revelation.</span></div>
<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><span class="credit img__credit"><span class="credit img__credit"><img class="alignnone wp-image-181670" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/protesters-outside-the-court-lheld-signs-calling-for-justice-for-vilma-trujillo.jpg" alt="Protesters outside the court lheld signs calling for justice for Vilma Trujillo.jpg" width="814" height="458" /><strong> Potesters outside the court in Managua, were seeking justice for the victim,</strong></span></span><strong>Vilma Trujillo</strong></h6>
<div class="wp-caption-text featured"><span class="credit img__credit">The pastor Rocha belongs to a religious group called the Assemblies of God, which distanced itself from the murder, saying he wasn’t a designated preacher for the church.<br />
The five men received the maximum 30-year term for Trujillo’s murder. All but Orozco got six additional years for the woman’s illegal detention.<br />
“The suffering that Trujillo was subjected to is something no human being should go through,” said Judge Alfredo Silva.<br />
He called the slaying premeditated and said Trujillo trusted the men.<br />
They were also fined $522 each, a substantial amount in the Central American country where the average monthly salary is less than $400.<br />
Their lawyers vowed to appeal the sentence.</span></div>
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Nicaraguan pastor, Juan Rocha, jailed 36 years for burning woman to death in ‘exorcism’
