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Speaker 1: Before we jump in, we must warn you this episode

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Speaker 1: contains explicit content, such as sexual abuse that may be

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Speaker 1: disturbing to some people. Listener discretion is advised. Also, if

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Speaker 1: this is the first time you're listening to Sacred Scandal,

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Speaker 1: everything will make a lot more sense if you start

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Speaker 1: with episode one. Alondro Campus Rode to Helen Earth began

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Speaker 1: around nineteen ninety when she was eight years old. Every August,

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Speaker 1: la Us del Mundo members from all over the world

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Speaker 1: descend on Armosa Provincia to celebrate the church and its

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Speaker 1: training apostle, and Alondra's family was no exception, making the

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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred mile track from Los Angeles to Arajara. On

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Speaker 1: such occasions, kits and adults celebrate separately. The adults go

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Speaker 1: prostrations and tears can last four hours. The kids are

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Speaker 1: That's what happened to Alondra. Her parents went to temple

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Speaker 1: and she went to the kids room, and that's when

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Speaker 1: A woman in charge of babysitting. The children picked little

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Speaker 1: Alondra out from the crowd. She brought to eight year

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Speaker 1: and proceeded to rape her. She cried and screamed in pain.

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Speaker 1: She could not understand what was happening to her, but

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Speaker 1: the unknown woman who took her there. All through the

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Speaker 1: ordeal kept telling her how this was God's will, this

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Speaker 1: When it was over, Alondra was instructed to keep it

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Speaker 1: loved ones. To help and keep it a secret, she did,

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Speaker 1: entering a world of abuse that would continue for over

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Speaker 1: thirty years. Alonda's story is not unique. We've heard versions

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Speaker 1: of it before with Sochi and her aunt, with Muses

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Speaker 1: and his sisters, and every one of them Sochi, Souchel's mother,

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Speaker 1: and her aunt, muss sisters and mother was brought to

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Speaker 1: the apostle by an older woman. Oftentimes it was a

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Speaker 1: One of the many that took care of the Apostles' needs.

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Speaker 1: In today's episode, we explore one of the most twisted

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Speaker 1: parts of Laluzel Mundo's story, the women who help the

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Speaker 1: apostles in their depraved acts. They're not an official entity

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Speaker 1: inside LEDM, but they are very well known, so well

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Speaker 1: known that the Mexican press gave them a name, the Vestals,

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Speaker 1: a reference to the Greco Roman virgin priestesses chosen from

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Speaker 1: the apostles groom young girls and boys for their pleasure,

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Speaker 1: like the Joaquins under crimes. The pattern began with the

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Speaker 1: original apostle, Aaron and with his wife Elisa Floris this

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Speaker 1: Sacred Scandal, Season two, episode six, The Vestals. The tragic

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Speaker 1: irony of our religious organization, like Laluzelle, is that its

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Speaker 1: members often find the cult at a dark moment in

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Speaker 1: your lives. For example, such In Martin's great grandmother joined

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Speaker 3: My grandpa's mother and my grandmother's mother who were members

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Speaker 3: broken homes, abusive husbands. You know, I have my great

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Speaker 1: At first, she felt like she had found community as

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Speaker 3: And so can you just imagine how this poor girl

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Speaker 3: You know, she was a very beautiful woman.

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Speaker 1: And that feeling, the feeling of belonging, of being wanted

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Speaker 1: To reject it would mean rejecting this community that gives

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Speaker 3: I believe that Aaron Elsebo essentially was a sick person

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Speaker 1: The cult's first big public scandal was in nineteen forty

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Speaker 3: So you have this powerful man who is already sick,

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Speaker 1: On December twenty sixth, nineteen forty two, the Whialahara newspaper

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Speaker 1: Eluxidenthal published testimonies from people who had left the church,

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Speaker 1: recounting Ron's frequent abuses of very young women. While Arn

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Speaker 1: Despite this very public scandal and Aaron's obvious improprieties, not

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Speaker 1: only was he abusing you girls, he was also cheating

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Speaker 1: aspect of the LLDM story. I've always been curious about

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Speaker 1: the women. All of the Apostles had wives, wives who

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Speaker 1: and they all followed Elissa's footsteps, not only covering their

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Speaker 1: of you meet the women of the Apostles because that

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Speaker 3: The wives like actual wives of the Apostles.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean exactly the actual wives. I mean Elisa

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Speaker 1: Sochil never met Aron's wife, but she knew ever of her.

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Speaker 1: Samuel used to say, God has not given me as

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Speaker 3: Eva never spoke, but she was always there. She was

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Speaker 1: Sochel remembers Eva's standing watch over the ritual erotic dances

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Speaker 3: She was there, Yeah, she was there, and she very

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Speaker 1: The tradition of the apostle's wife not just standing by

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Speaker 1: Alma something such It also knows about firsthand.

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Speaker 3: I was just I was a young girl. I was sixteen,

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Speaker 1: And Suchill was not the only survivor who witnessed I'll

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Speaker 3: I'm like, she's just a person who couldn't give two

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Speaker 3: Just don't get me involved.

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Speaker 1: Souchill confidently says the wives of the apostles are totally complicit.

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Speaker 3: But in the end, she's just as guilty because she

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Speaker 1: We can only guess as to why these women don't

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Speaker 1: these horrible crimes. But as Suchill says, it's not in

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Speaker 3: So you have your membership, and within these members you

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Speaker 3: So you have to preach a certain amount of hours

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Speaker 3: And the more members you have, the more money you

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Speaker 1: And while more members e call more money, the apostles

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Speaker 1: says the church asentier council considers all of this when

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Speaker 3: Level, What have you done for me in these past

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Speaker 3: fifteen years that now you want to be a deacon?

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Speaker 3: And so then the apostle says, this is the amount

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Speaker 1: The dances, those dances Suchill performed in when she was younger,

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Speaker 1: a sort of gateway to future abuses. Finding pretty young

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Speaker 1: Mister Tegra Raja came to represent Alondre Campo after Nassan

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Speaker 2: This is just this very well woiled brainwashing machine that

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Speaker 1: The abuse Alandra was objected to when she was eight

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Speaker 1: Like other Elim members we've heard from, Alondra was born

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Speaker 1: And latched on they did. Alondra, her parents, and her

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Speaker 2: When Alandra and her parents and her family and her

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Speaker 2: Her entire life, all day long, she is being told

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Speaker 1: And the abuse was brutal. While a young teenager, Alondro

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Speaker 1: And it was not just some wiy Another member of

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Speaker 2: Though Landra had no choice. She's being told by a

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Speaker 1: Despite this fall from grace, she remained a devout member,

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Speaker 2: But now what I want us I want you to

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Speaker 2: She was being instructed to find other women for Nissan

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Speaker 1: We don't know exactly how this conversation went down or

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Speaker 1: It was the formula used on her, the one LEDM

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Speaker 1: Word, Loyel, Alondra would become one of Nassan's chief groomers

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Speaker 5: Prosecutors say the Apostle, for all his religious glory, has

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Speaker 1: Alondro Ocampo was taking to Linwood's correctional center. On the

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Speaker 1: She was charged with twenty six felon accounts including forcible

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Speaker 5: And can you understand how she would be able to

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Speaker 3: I do, I do because I believe she was brainwashed.

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Speaker 2: I do believe that.

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Speaker 3: I believe all the girls were because I was.

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Speaker 1: On our next episode, we will further explore Alondra's ordeal

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