Branham Cult Caught Covering Up Abuse - Victimizing the Victims

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Jonas Felicio Pimentel is a leader of William Branham's cult of personality from Brazil and head pastor of the evangelical Tabernacle of Faith church in Brazil. He assumed church leadership after former Branhamite leader Joaquim Goncalves Silva died. The church was infamous after becoming the target of an investigation for sexual abuse and harassment of at least four children attending the church.[1]

In 2024, Pimentel made national news after attempting to cover up physical and sexual crimes against women and children. He claimed that the reason children of the Branham cult are abused is because they are guilty of some sin, and in cases of sexual crimes, including rape, the children are guilty of participating in the crime. Instead of reporting the crimes, Pimentel advised parents to watch the "guilty" children at all times because the abuse is the cult's "custom" and can be "picked up" by other families and can result in further "accidental" crimes. Even close relatives must be separated unless the parent is watching the potential victim at all times.[2]

There are situations where, when a child is abused, the child is also guilty because it has given way. But that is an exception, but it is within these events. children are also to blame, they have participation[3]
- Pimentel
Child abuse advocates in Brazil were apparently contacted by church members who found the pastor's statements disturbing and felt that the cover-up of child abuse should be exposed. The statements were posted to social media, and one response summed it up well:

Putting the victim as guilty is well for those who have a lot to hide and deserve to be investigated {...} My lord, the absurdity you have just spoken of should not only shock me, but, to all who were children and who today are adult parents and who are not in the place of an abuser or pedophile. [Pimentel's] statements are disgusting
- Xuxa Meneghel
Pimentel attempted to conceal cases of physical abuse in the church by instructing victims, "If you have bruises, cover them with adhesive tape." Pimentel apparently continues to instruct parents to assault their children according to William Branham's instructions for physical abuse. Branham praised parents who stripped their children naked and beat their flesh until it was bruised, mutilated, and swollen to the extent that clothes would no longer fit. Branham's favorite tool for beating victims was a barrel slat, a rounded board used to make whiskey barrels.[4] Branham also instructed men to beat their wives using two-by-four lumber.

You would find out how illiterate they were. She'd beat her till she'd be so full of welts, you couldn't get the clothes over the top of them. That's what needs to be done tonight.[5]
- William Branham
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