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In June 2019, California arrested Naasón Joaquín García, under 26 charges of rape, human trafficking and child pornography, crimes that he would have committed between 2015 and 2018.
The defense lawyer of Naasón Joaquín García, Alan Jackson, begins to recognize that the leader of the Luz del Mundo church might be sentenced to spend the rest of his life in jail, according to an investigation by the Univisión network in Los Angeles .
“This is a complex case in which Mr. García is facing dozens of serious charges, five accusers and a potential sentence of life imprisonment,” stated the lawyer in a document that he delivered to Superior Judge Ronald Coen.
The so-called apostle of Jesus Christ faces 19 charges, several of them for sexual abuse of minors and at least one of rape.
The religious leader might still plead guilty and thereby reduce his sentence, but he insists on his innocence, for which he will face trial between May and July this year.
As witnesses, several women will participate who have declared to the prosecution that Naasón Joaquín sexually abused them in California when they were minors, in conspiracy or complicity with three women who served the so-called apostle.
But now one of García’s co-defendants, Alondra Ocampo, who was arrested along with Naasón in 2019 in Los Angeles, Alondra Ocampo, cooperates with the prosecution and will also be a witness in the trial once morest the leader of Luz del Mundo, Univisión reported .
Ocampo, always according to the Univisión investigation, pleaded guilty to four counts of collaboration with sexual abuse of the leader of Luz del Mundo, but her lawyer also informed the prosecution that Ocampo was raped when she was 9 years old by the Naasón’s father and founder of his church, Samuel García.
While Joaquín García’s defense attorney argues that it will be very difficult for the leader of Luz del Mundo to face witnesses, who will use masks to prevent contagion of covid-19, the prosecution has warned that the masks have not prevented the administration of justice in the country and, in this case, they might protect the witnesses once morest possible attacks by followers of Naasón.
The lawyer says that with masks it would be as if Naasón faced ghosts, without a face and without a name, since the prosecution has mentioned them in documents as unknown 1,2,3 and 4.
The prosecution, for its part, has responded that the attempts to intimidate the Luz del Mundo faithful have even targeted Mexican and US officials.
The data
- Joaquín García and his co-defendants coerced their victims into performing sexual acts by threatening that if they went once morest any of their wishes or wishes like “the apostle” they were going once morest God.
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