New York — On Wednesday, the authorities said that the Mexican President of Megakhorch has long been spending more than 16 years in California Prison because of the abuse of sexual followers of youth, who had been charged with conspiracy and sex trafficking due to the victims of the church members for decades.
A major federal jury in New York has re -accusation claiming that Nasson Jawakin Garcia, 56, and five others who took advantage of the church for decades to enable sexual assault on children and women for sexual gratification of Parisia and his father, who died in 2014.
The newly known indictment said that criminal activity included creating pictures and videos of sexual assault on children.
Garcia was transferred to the federal reservation early Wednesday in Cheno, California, where he is serving a prison sentence for more than 16 years after he admitted that he was guilty in 2022 for two accusations of the state.
Naason Joaquin Garcia, the leader of a Mexican Bible Church with international membership, attends a listening session to review the sponsorship of the Los Angeles Higher Court on July 15, 2019.
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His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
García is the president of La Luz Del Mondo (the light of the world), who claims to have 5 million followers around the world. Believers consider him the “Messenger” of Jesus Christ.
Prosecutors in California said that he used his spiritual effect to have sex with girls and young women who were told that this would lead to their salvation – or the dreaded if they refuse.
Besides Garcia, one of the defendants in the case was held in Los Angeles while another person was arrested in Chicago, the authorities said. Three others were in a style.
According to the indictment, two defendants and others tried to destroy evidence and prevent victims of sexual assault from speaking to law enforcement after the arrest of Garcia.
They said that they pressed the victims to sign false advertisements left behind that any mistreatment had occurred, formulating and distributing speeches that all of the victims of sexual assault were lying and playing the church’s doctrine that doubts that the Messenger was a sin punishable by eternal curse.
In a statement, American lawyer Jay Clayton said that Garcia and others “took advantage of the faith of their followers to displaced them.”
He added: “When they faced, they benefited from their religious influence, their financial strength to intimidate and defend the victims to remain silent about the abuse they suffered.”
Ricky c. Patel, head of investigations into the New York Internal Security Office, said that the charges resulting from “achieving a continuation over the years extended the country and participated in supporting dozens of brave victims.”
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