Spiritual guru accused of sex abuse

For more than 40 years, spiritual healer Joao Teixeira de Faria drew people from all over the world to this small city in central Brazil, offering treatment for everything from depression to cancer.

Since December, more than 250 women including his daughter have come forward to allege abuse that ranged from being felt up during treatments to rape. The mounting accusations are turning the 77-year-old spiritual guru into Brazil’s first major figure to go down in the #metoo era, which has been slow to take off in Latin America’s largest nation despite myriad problems with gender equality.

— Associated Press