Judge continues $50M bail for Mexican megachurch leader

[TexasTowelie]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge continued the extraordinary $50 million bail Friday for the leader of Mexico-based megachurch La Luz del Mundo but said prosecutors must offer more evidence of their child sex and human trafficking allegations at the next court hearing.

Naasón Joaquín García, the church's self-proclaimed apostle, poses a threat to "hundreds of girls" if he gets released, Deputy Attorney General Amanda Plisner said in Los Angeles Superior Court, arguing that he be held without bail as the investigation — which could lead to additional charges and victims — continues.

Joaquín García, 50, and his co-defendants were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of child rape, statutory rape, molestation, human trafficking, child pornography and extortion. The charges in the 26-count felony complaint detail allegations involving three girls and one woman between 2015 and 2018 in Los Angeles County.

Joaquín García and his two co-defendants, Susana Medina Oaxaca and Alondra Ocampo, all pleaded not guilty. Another defendant remains at large.

Read more: https://www.mrt.com/news/crime/article/Mexican-megachurch-leader-returns-to-court-in-sex-14027078.php
(Midland Reporter-Telegram)

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I swear...I thought I would track the number of pasters, preachers, and the like to see how ...

stories/articles pop up about these peoples' scams and rip offs, just for the heck of it. So far, after about two weeks or so, almost 10 stories about different scam artists...in various different denominations...

Pathetic.

[TexasTowelie]

2. If you also include sexual harassers and abusers

it could turn into a full-time job.. It's like they have been granted a license to sin.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. It's certainly getting that way. I am amazed at how big my word doc is getting to be (I...

keep a brief of the DU stories on each, and add to it each new story). Talk about a field that's obviously very unregulated or monitored for such stuff. It's sickening and obscene. Take care.

[Judi Lynn]

5. People who have depended entirely upon their childhood beliefs are afraid of the world,

and cling to the very exact words used by their childhood religious leaders, and don't usually question one bit of it, don't think they can question it without being lost forever. I have seen so many people like that, people who don't trust anyone but the environment they grew up in, and the offsprings of that world.

The leaders, the political, religious ones seem to carry the authority they feel obliged to obey.

In cultures where you can keep education out of reach for the poor, you can continue their bondage perpetually. That's why the oligarchs will do EVERYTHING they can to keep things just as they are, even hiring mercenaries to terrorize and slaughter the ones among the poor who dare encourage their fellow people they have to fight for their lives in order to live.

[Judi Lynn]

4. As vile as this man is, he doesn't seem worse than U.S. Sleazerinos!

If only lightning would strike that slimy mitt.



Is he ever going to get his! It'll probably set off a sunami.