Voodoo priest accused of sex with underage girl
Man, 48, was ‘cleansing evil spirits,’ police say
may have had unCinor for a spiritual reading, Sunrise police wanted sex with Ciofficer Cindi McCue said. As Cinor moninor to “cleanse evil tored the girl’s mother, he said he felt evil spirits.” They said spirits coming from her 11-year-old daughter.he’sbeenpracticing as a Voodoo priest in He took the girl into a private shed that the city for almost a resembled a tiki hut, police said, and had decade. sex with her.
Cinor, 48, was arA few weeks later, McCue said, the girl rested June 19. He told her mother what had happened. She faces one count of confronted Cinor and he threatened to sexual battery on a child less than12 years of curse her, McCue said, if she said anything age. He was released from the Broward about the accusation. County Jail on June 20 on a bond of “He was using the victims’ belief in V $75,000. Number getting married in Central Florida
Cinor’s attorney, Brian Silber, said his rises sharply since gay-marriage ban’s end client vehemently denies these allegations, oodoo and curses,” McCue said. “They beand that his innocence will be proven in lieved they could die if they didn’t follow his court. instructions.”
At Cinor’s house Friday, no one answered Police were notified in 2014 after the girl the door, but someone did throw a large told her father what happened, police said. piece of a rock at reporters congregated Two years earlier, two other women went outside. to police with allegations of being coerced
In 2009, into sex with Cinor because he said they
He is a self-proclaimed Voodoo priest, police say, and he told his followers he had healing powers.
Brogenet Cinor told officers he has worked with Voodoo magic for the past 30 years and has cleansed souls haunted by evil spirits. That’s how he met a woman and her 11-year-old daughter.
Now, Cinor is accused of raping the girl while she was a middle-school student. The girl, now 16, told Sunrise police officers that Cinor had sex with her because he was “cleansing” the evil spirits that lived inside her.
On Friday, Sunrise police held a news conference in an effort to find people who
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One of the women said she and Cinor had sex multiple times and that she became pregnant with their child. The woman told police he offered her $450 to get an abortion, according to the arrest report.
Another woman told police Cinor told her if they did not have sex to cleanse the spirits, she would die. She told police she became pregnant, and Cinor gave her $500 to get an abortion.
McCue said the Broward County State Attorney’s Office closed those cases and declined to prosecute.
Investigators ask anyone with information regarding Cinor to call detectives at the Sunrise Police Department at 954-746-3569.
“This is a very concerning crime for us, especially because of the young age of the victim,” McCue said.
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