Siena, sexual violence behind new age courses: 46 year old arrested

According to the investigators, the two would have reduced and kept in a state of subjection several people who had joined the association to overcome, through the couple’s energy theories of new age inspiration, problems deriving from negative experiences in the family, sentimental and , more generally, in relational relationships that limited their autonomous capacity for self-determination.

These theories instead had the purpose, according to what emerged from the investigations, to make the followers believe that to achieve psychophysical well-being and attract positive energy, they would have to buy gadgets, amulets, discs, stones (with a variable cost up to 800 euros) and attend paid training courses and group meetings, called “deltalife”. Furthermore, everyone had to carry out free work within the association or in the home of the “guru”.

And after being removed from family and friends, humiliated and subjected to practices of subjection and punishment, the adepts would also have been forced to sexual performances presented to the victims as an absolutely necessary practice to achieve spiritual well-being, and to give substantial sums of money. .

In addition to the allegations of sexual violence and abuse, the man is also being investigated for abusive exercise of the medical profession, and the couple for abusive exercise of the profession of “psychologist psychotherapist”.

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