New York Daily News

Let me heal you or I will kill you

- Noah Goldberg, Larry McShane and Molly Crane-Newman

A SEX-OBSESSED Bronx “spiritual healer” allegedly threatened to make his patients pay the ultimate price for his skin-crawling services: death.

“If you do not let me touch you, you and your family will die,” defendant Cristian Robles, 32, allegedly told one victim of his raunchy rituals before his arrest this week. The Santeria practition­er, in addition to imposing “death curses,” offered a full spiritual cleansing to remove each one — at $1,000 a pop, Assistant District Attorney Johnathan Vega said Thursday.

Robles (photo) was ordered held on $200,000 bond after the Bronx Criminal Court hearing.

The alleged healer used a knife to cut off one victim’s clothing — then placed the blade to the man’s throat while attempting anal penetratio­n, according to a criminal complaint. The defendant was charged with eight crimes, including criminal sexual act, sexual abuse — and fortune telling.

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