{"id":10465,"date":"2018-12-17T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/brazil-faith-healer-john-of-god-surrenders-to-police\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:43:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:43:32","slug":"faith-healer-joao-teixeira-de-faria-hands-himself-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/faith-healer-joao-teixeira-de-faria-hands-himself-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Healer Joao Teixeira de Faria Hands Himself In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faith healer Joao Teixeira de Faria,\u00a0also known as &#8220;John of God&#8221;, who is accused of abusing 300 women, has handed himself in after\u00a0an arrest warrant was issued on Friday. He is accused of a number of sexual assaults on women with\u00a0the latest victim accusing him of manipulating her into performing certain acts.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Faria, who is not a qualified doctor, has previously been jailed for operating without a licence and it will be interesting to see how the\u00a0trial goes as he is certainly guilty of abuse of position but there is no evidence of force or coercion in his alleged actions. The news that he\u00a0withdrew 35 million Reais ($8.9m)\u00a0 from his bank accounts should ensure that plenty of compensation claims are forthcoming if he is found guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith healer Joao Teixeira de Faria,\u00a0also known as &#8220;John of God&#8221;, who is accused of abusing 300 women, has handed himself in after\u00a0an arrest warrant was issued on Friday. He is accused of a number of sexual assaults on women with\u00a0the latest victim accusing him of manipulating her into performing certain acts. Mr Faria, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[62,446],"class_list":["post-10465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-american-news","tag-brazil","tag-joao-teixeira-de-faria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10496,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions\/10496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}