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Alleged groomer of teen victims in La Luz del Mundo sex abuse case says she was victim too
A woman accused of grooming teenage girls for the sexual pleasure of the head of La Luz del Mundo church has come forward and is now alleging through her attorney that she too was a victim. Alondra Ocampo, who has reached a plea deal in the case set for trial in Los Angeles County Superior […...
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Judge dismisses extortion counts in Luz del Mundo sex abuse case
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has thrown out several counts of extortion against the head of La Luz del Mundo church in a case where prosecutors say the leader used his base to groom underage victims for his sexual pleasure. Citing insufficient evidence, Judge Stephen A. Marcus on Wednes...
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La Luz Del Mundo leader held on all counts of rape, child pornography and sex trafficking
One after another, the agents from the California Department of Justice took the witness stand and related what the teenage girls and young women had told them: Naasón Joaquin Garcia, the leader of La Luz Del Mundo, an international church headquartered in Mexico, had raped them. After five days of...
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Agent details child rape, pornography case against La Luz Del Mundo church leader
Since the day he stepped off a private jet at Los Angeles International Airport and was arrested last June, Naason Joaquin Garcia, the leader of an international church headquartered in Mexico, has been held on charges of raping children and possessing child pornography, among other felonies. The ca...
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Judge hikes bail for La Luz del Mundo leader to $90 million
A judge on Thursday set bail at $90 million for the leader of La Luz del Mundo church, all but ensuring that the religious leader, Naason Joaquin Garcia, will remain jailed as he awaits trial on charges of raping children and possessing child pornography, among other crimes. The bail amount, set by ...
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La Luz del Mundo church leader faces new rape charges
The state’s attorney general has filed new charges against the leader of the Mexico-based La Luz del Mundo megachurch, who has been accused of raping children under the guise of his leadership. The charges, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, come four months after Naason Joaquin...
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Attorney general reviewing court ruling to dismiss megachurch leader’s abuse case
The criminal case against the leader of a Mexico-based megachurch on charges that included child rape and human trafficking was ordered dismissed Tuesday by a California appeals court on procedural grounds — a decision that will resound heavily with church followers worldwide who have maintained...
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Sex slavery and forced labor charges lodged against La Luz del Mundo church
When leaders of La Luz del Mundo church said they needed money, she turned over all her earnings. When they wanted sex, she gave them her body, beginning at age 9. And when they wanted her to recruit other children to be groomed for sexual slavery, she did that too, she said — until the […]...
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Woman Says She Was Recruited as Teen to Be Powerful Church Leader’s ‘Sex Slave’
A California woman, Sochil Martin, has told the federal agents and California prosecutors that the men who ran her church recruited her as a high school teen in Los Angeles to become a “sex slave” for the leader of the Light of the World Church, which claims to have five million members in the ...
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The latest on La Luz Del Mundo’s plans for 272-acre Flowery Branch site
No formal papers have been filed or public meetings held since a religious group’s plans for a 272-acre development in Flowery Branch became public more than a year ago. But Mexico-based La Luz Del Mundo hasn’t given up its vision for a multi-use community at 5071 Hog Mountain Road, near Wade O...
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