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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. It's another nice June day in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles and Nasson qua quing Garcia is flying high. He

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Speaker 1: just got back from a grand tour celebrating his fiftieth birthday,

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Speaker 1: from visiting the future home of his next megachurch city

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Speaker 1: in Salvador, with that country's president by his side, all

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Speaker 1: the way back to Mexico City for a luxurious birthday

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Speaker 1: bush in one of the most prestigious venues in the

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Speaker 1: world bas Artists, a place reserved for global artists and

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Speaker 1: Nobel Prize winners. The private plane lands in Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: International Airport. Let's imagine Nason, Joaquin and his two lovely

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Speaker 1: ready to take in the La breezes. Nason was surely

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Speaker 1: making plans, maybe relishing the coming company of his California unconditionals.

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Speaker 1: As the door opened and he stepped onto the plane stairs,

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Speaker 1: but the welcoming committee was somewhat unusual, not exactly his

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Speaker 1: regular servants or any of his adoring followers. I can

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Speaker 1: imagine nason smug demeanor, shrinking as is greeted by multiple

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Speaker 1: badges from the FBI homele security and eyes ready to

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Speaker 1: hank off him and read him his rights. The evidence

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Speaker 1: against Nason is overwhelming. There are thousands of compromising pictures,

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Speaker 1: text messages, and videos, so much so that weeks later,

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Speaker 1: at a bail hearing, Judge George Familie showed nas sound

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Speaker 1: clear signs that the US government was not messing around

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Speaker 1: as regards to.

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Speaker 2: Their faces plenteo serious vality accounts, sexual balit accounts as

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Speaker 2: putting on child forcible rapable, minor forcible, all population extortion,

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Speaker 3: Child engage, and a loud a a awful sexual arter

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Speaker 3: course of the minor human trafficking, possession.

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Speaker 2: Of child pornography.

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Speaker 4: The appropriate fail.

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Speaker 2: Of this matter showed me fasted at ninety million dollars.

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Speaker 5: That is a coort of order.

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Speaker 1: Ironically, it was the defense that had convened the hearing.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to ask for a reduction from them fifty

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Speaker 1: million dollars in post after LEDM managed to gather in

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Speaker 1: five million dollar bond originally asked for, but instead of

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Speaker 1: lowering the amount, Judge Lomelie cited evidence of a systematic

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Speaker 1: pattern of sexual assault of miners courtesy of Nasson's iPhone content,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately found the ninety million dollar mark more appropriate

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Speaker 1: considering Garcia's elevated flight risk. The apostle was well known

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Speaker 1: for his access to private planes, his considerable amount of

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Speaker 1: to him by Mexico's powers at b Nason's bailed became

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Speaker 1: one of the highest ever set in the state of California.

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Speaker 1: It was clear that the servant of God would have

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Speaker 1: to spend all his pretrial motions behind bars. With so

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Speaker 1: much dumbing evidence against the defendant, the case looked pretty straightforward.

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Speaker 1: But life had other plans for all of us. As

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Speaker 1: a potential trial date approached, the global pandemic of twenty

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Speaker 1: In earnest after that, one might have expected such a

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Speaker 1: strong case to be a slum dunk for the DA,

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Speaker 1: Yet for the victims and all the people anxiously watching

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Speaker 1: the proceedings, nothing would go as expected. I'm Robert de Garzan.

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Speaker 1: This is Sacred Scandal, season two, episode ten, The Jane Does.

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Speaker 1: It's twenty eighteen and the California Attorney General's Office is

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Speaker 1: especially busy. In recent months. An anonymous hotland was at

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Speaker 1: up to report sexual abuse crimes against miners, and the

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Speaker 1: promising tip made its way in. It's an anonymous complaint

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Speaker 1: letting the investigators know about a well known, respected church

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Speaker 1: His name is Nasan Jua Quing Garcia, the leader of

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Speaker 1: La uzel Mundo, and he claims to be the apostle

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Speaker 1: of God. Even though the caller is supposed to remain anonymous,

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Speaker 1: courage is needed in order to accuse the Joakin family.

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Speaker 1: The church has been known to find the identity of

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Speaker 1: its sleekuers, and as we have seen from past episodes,

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Speaker 1: they have a ruthless way to make any life miserable.

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Speaker 1: Thanks in part to California Senator Joseph Dunn, who helped

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Speaker 1: author a bill in two thousand and two that opened

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Speaker 1: up a one year window and presently a three year window,

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Speaker 1: allowing sexual abuse cases to come forward no matter how

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Speaker 1: old crime is. The long history of the Joaquin's family's

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Speaker 1: impunity was about to come to a screeching halt because

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Speaker 1: you see, before this extension, particularly for underage victims, most

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Speaker 1: states kept the statue of limitation open just for a

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Speaker 1: short number of years after the survivors eighteen thirty, and

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Speaker 1: the Senator Dun explains this is a problem.

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Speaker 6: The problem is, on average, a survivor of childhood sexual

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Speaker 6: mid forties to early fifties. Those statistics are very solid. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 6: had long expired. Almost zero survivors of child sexual abuse

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Speaker 1: A Senator Dunn mentions the legal route is along a

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Speaker 1: nardos roads that often leads to revictimization, more trauma, and

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Speaker 1: facing an institution such as an LDM. Yet a couple

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Speaker 1: of brave women dare to speak. You see, the community

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Speaker 1: church members leave behind when they flee is for good

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Speaker 1: or bad, very strong. It is no wonder that when

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Speaker 1: they find themselves on the outside, they seek to form

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Speaker 1: a new one, just as binding among themselves. Social media

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Speaker 1: plays a crucial role, with podcasts, blogs and videos being

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Speaker 1: used to share the process of healing and the status

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Speaker 1: of critics and dissenters, with quite a number of believers

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Speaker 7: So.

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Speaker 1: After the investigation was opened and police began questioning a

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Speaker 1: number of people close to the church, the news spread

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Speaker 1: like wildfire among the EXLEDM community. Some of them began

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Speaker 1: quietly cooperating with the police. Five of them were brought

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Speaker 1: all been naissance victims. They would later come to be

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Speaker 1: known on the record as Jane Dowes one through five.

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Speaker 8: For the first time, they were able to kind of

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Speaker 1: Lawyer Joi Jaeditsun represents these five survivors in the civil

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Speaker 1: case brought by the DA against Nassan and three of

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Speaker 1: his accomplices, and she knows abuse victims carry way too

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Speaker 1: many burdens. There's an unshakable feeling of loneliness and isolation,

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Speaker 1: when these jendos found each other, they knew that coming

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Speaker 8: It's like breaking a stick. You could break one, be

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Speaker 8: you can't break the bunch. And now these brave women

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Speaker 1: We know l DM doesn't hold back when trying to

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Speaker 1: destroy its perceived enemies. We have seen what they're capable of,

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Speaker 1: attempted murder, extortion, character obliteration, and kidnapping. Bringing a case

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Speaker 1: against Nasaun or the church as a witness is a

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Speaker 1: very dangerous affair. The jendos knew they would suffer the

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Speaker 8: Embrace California recognizes how delicate sexual abuse is for the victims,

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Speaker 8: and so it gives them the opportunity to be anonymous.

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Speaker 8: And I think that it was never more important than

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Speaker 8: are quite frankly fanatical.

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Speaker 1: We'll explore just how fanatical. After the break, despite the

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Speaker 8: Each person had a bit of a different story that

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Speaker 8: was unique to them. But one thing that every single

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Speaker 8: one of my clients have said publicly and said to

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Speaker 8: everyone else is that they just want to prevent this

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Speaker 1: Let's stop for a minute and, with the help of Joey,

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Speaker 1: get to know these brave ladies individually and understand the

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Speaker 1: difficulties of prosecuting someone who gets to be called the

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Speaker 1: servant of God. Gender one was born into a family

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Speaker 1: Around twenty sixteen, when she was approximately fourteen, Nason ordered

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Speaker 1: Alondra Ao Campo to create a group of girls under

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Nason and Alondra call them the Angelitas or

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Speaker 1: those little angels. I'll just say it started with private dances,

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Speaker 5: I was being used as a toy.

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Speaker 9: For your pleasure, your honor. Everyone has catered to this

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Speaker 9: pedophile's desires his entire life. The church worchip Sir, the

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Speaker 9: Mexican government venerates him and covered his criminal actions for years.

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Speaker 1: Jane do two also became an Angelita as a young teen.

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Speaker 1: She was lucky enough to be raised by a single

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Speaker 10: You would repeatedly tell me that I have no one

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Speaker 5: To protect me, I provide for us. You told me

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Speaker 1: When Jane Do two's mother complained to the church, an

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Speaker 1: family thereafter, arguing that Nassan was the Lord and that

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Speaker 8: Listen all of this, This whole case is truly unbelievable.

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Speaker 8: It's the stuff of nightmares. And it's my job to

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Speaker 8: make it make sense to everyone. And the first thing

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Speaker 8: is going to say, it's going to be how could

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Speaker 8: you believe that this guy is Jesus Christ, honor that

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Speaker 1: Jane Do three's family had been longtime church members. She

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Speaker 1: was also recruited to the Angelita's at fourteen. On her

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Speaker 1: to worry, as he was God and the girls were

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Speaker 1: his angels, and that this was a blessing. The root

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Speaker 1: of la DM's culture of views is so rotten. Even

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Speaker 1: the wives of the apostles are complicit. When she was

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Speaker 1: sixteen and in the middle of us exact with Nasan Janeo,

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Speaker 1: three remembers watching the apostle's wife, Alma Samora, as she

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Speaker 1: came into the room, said nothing and left in silence.

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Speaker 1: Alma was doing what every woman in LDM is trying

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Speaker 1: The very lessons ladm's victims are brainwashed to endure.

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Speaker 9: Forgive me if I stutter, Forgive me because I'm very

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Speaker 11: Alondra would manipulate me and the other girls, and that

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Speaker 5: Never believe us.

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Speaker 12: But most importantly, because it was a blessing, a blessing

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Speaker 5: This didn't make any sense to me. I was the

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Speaker 5: This is my uncle.

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Speaker 1: In her statement to the court, she recounted how Nassan

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Speaker 8: Your honor.

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Speaker 5: This man destroyed my life. My faith was used as

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Speaker 1: Every time Nason abused Jane Do four, he made her

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Speaker 8: It's the stuff that nightmares are created from, and it's

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Speaker 1: Joey specializes in abuse cases. She has in endless horrifying stories,

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Speaker 8: It's evil personified. He abused her for years. He committed

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Speaker 1: The story of our last Jane Doe Jane do five

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Speaker 8: Jane Do five survived. She just unthinkable. She was abused

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you what we know. Right after a

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Speaker 1: specific details surrounding her abuses, intimate graphic details that no

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Speaker 1: Two months later, in August of twenty nineteen, Janeo five

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Speaker 1: On arrival at her Mosa Provincia, her husband took her

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Speaker 1: Right then and there, the man renewed his requests that

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Speaker 8: She was in Mexico. She was held captive because they

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Speaker 1: Ten men from the Guard of ricon the Apostles family,

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Speaker 8: What I do know is that ultimately she couldn't leave,

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Speaker 1: Jane do FIV was rescued with her daughter by a

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Speaker 5: The fear.

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Speaker 3: Was so rewhelming. I was terrified. I thought I would

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Speaker 5: And even then it was so hard to go against you.

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Speaker 3: Your power extended so deep in Halisco that even the

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Speaker 3: I had to jump a wall with my baby of

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Speaker 1: Armed with his testimonies, with hard evidence the Jendo's collectively provided,

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Speaker 4: Enough a persians ficient evidence for a great out injury.

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Speaker 1: I do find there's an.

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Speaker 4: Evidence that all the charges and adherents in the plane

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Speaker 4: they are being many to have Christy said thank.

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Speaker 8: You all.

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Speaker 1: More on that after the break. Meanwhile, in Almosa Provincia,

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Speaker 13: The Church categorically rejects each and every allegation made against him.

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Speaker 13: We trust in the principles of justice that govern our

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Speaker 14: Nason Garcia has not had rois respected. In fact, from

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Speaker 1: But all the pr messaging and fact twisting in the

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Speaker 1: Despite Nasson's very expensive legal team s effort to throw

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Speaker 1: the Jen Doe's new things would get rocky when they

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Speaker 1: days before the trial was set to start, Nason took

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Speaker 8: It is thousands of pictures and electronic devices and documents

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Speaker 8: She had flight stubs and and invites and tickets and

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Speaker 8: Like what compelled her to keep all this stuff? Because

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Speaker 1: So this is how we finally arrived. At Juneate twenty

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Speaker 4: So I've been a judge for a long time. I'm

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Speaker 1: In criminal cases, when a judge is ready to sentence

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Speaker 15: And it won't be complete justice to us, But I

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Speaker 15: was so that at least this court sees us, here's us,

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Speaker 15: and thinks that we are with you.

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Speaker 1: Just The victim impact statement before sentencing lasted five hours,

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Speaker 1: Jackson couldn't stop nervously looking at his watch over and

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Speaker 1: over Acting Attorney General Fusco hung her head between her hands.

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Speaker 1: The only person left unmoved was the reason for it all,

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Speaker 1: Na Song, quaking Garcia, who stared blankly in front of him,

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Speaker 1: looking annoyed away from his victims, fully disregarding their suffering

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Speaker 1: for the duration of the audience. Earlier that day, the

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Speaker 1: Jane Dowes had been nervous but hopeful. They wanted to

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Speaker 1: make sure nasn and his ledm enablers would finally be punished.

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Speaker 1: They knew he would certainly be put behind bars, but

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Speaker 1: they wanted him to stay there for the longest time possible,

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Speaker 1: not only for destroying their lives, but also in the

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Speaker 1: hopes he would never again be able to torture other

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Speaker 1: boys and girls. So they had prepared themselves to bear

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Speaker 1: their souls one last time to let Nason know that

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Speaker 1: he had lost, to see him get the punishment he deserved,

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Speaker 1: and to move on, praying justice would bring them closer

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Speaker 1: yet Minutes before walking into that courtroom, they were informed

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Speaker 1: that five days before, and behind their backs, Nason had

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Speaker 1: struck a sweetheart deal with the DA that most of

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Speaker 1: the chargers would be dropped and that the sentence would

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Speaker 1: be very kind to the defendant. Only three of the

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Speaker 1: lesser charges, those pertaining to the underage Jane Does one

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Speaker 1: to three, would stand. The others, the most grievous ones

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Speaker 1: were just tossed away. Here's what the Jane Does themselves

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Speaker 7: All I have ever wanted was to see that song

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Speaker 7: go to trial for what he did to me, to

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Speaker 7: us to speak the truth in this courtroom, my truth,

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Speaker 7: and to tell the world who this man really.

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Speaker 5: Is, and to expose him for the monster that he is.

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Speaker 9: I would like the public and this court to know

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Speaker 9: we were not reasonably notified of this plea. We did

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Speaker 9: not know it would happen. When we walked into this courtroom,

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Speaker 9: still blindsided from having heard the news minutes before.

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Speaker 10: We stood before you, all five agals are ready to

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Speaker 10: face you in the trial, and waited for that opportunity

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Speaker 10: for three years. You all knew we wanted our day court.

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Speaker 10: We wanted to face our same competitor. We went the

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Speaker 10: pride of that ride when the Attorney General was decided

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Speaker 10: to agreement when it I would like this court to know,

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Speaker 10: I was not informed, not that I consent to negotiating

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Speaker 10: with this rapist.

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Speaker 1: Their anger was not unwarranted, not only because compared to

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Speaker 1: the amount of pain and suffering the Apostles' crimes had

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Speaker 1: cast on them, the sentence was a travesty, a mere

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Speaker 1: slap on the wrist. It was because the prosecution had

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Speaker 1: promised them they would never ever offer a sona pidio. Ever,

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Speaker 1: let's listen to Jane Do four.

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Speaker 11: When I agreed to be a Jane Do, I was

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Speaker 11: assured that there would be no negotiations and.

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Speaker 5: No clear agreements.

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Speaker 11: The prosecution assured me of that from the very beginning. Listen,

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Speaker 11: no negotiations and no agreements was one of the only reasons.

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Speaker 5: I agreed to come forward. Oh yes, Jane Do to

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Speaker 5: not even think he.

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Speaker 11: Was allowed to take a plea anymore. We were getting

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Speaker 11: ready for trial and excited to finally.

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Speaker 6: Have our day in court.

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Speaker 5: Then we got a call.

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Speaker 11: Telling us we have fifteen minutes to get to downtown

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Speaker 11: to speak with a prosecution. I didn't even realize we

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Speaker 11: were queen the court. We felt like in an instant

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Speaker 11: we were told game over, thanks for participating, step aside

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Speaker 11: to see your rapist kinna trophy. We were told everything

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Speaker 11: was agreed upon, signed and ordered, all of this without

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Speaker 11: speaking to a single one of us sitting here today,

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Speaker 11: the actual people that suffered this cruelty, and we're victims

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Speaker 11: of this crime, your honor.

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Speaker 5: This man destroyed my life.

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Speaker 11: And through his unremorseful please he exerts his power once more.

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Speaker 5: I had to spend the entire weekend listening.

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Speaker 11: To the church members claim that Nason was vindicated, that

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Speaker 11: if we really had any evidence against him, that he

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Speaker 11: would be locked away for life, that this is the

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Speaker 11: science of his innocence.

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Speaker 1: These women had been violated, trembled upon, silenced, and dismissed

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Speaker 1: all their lives by those who were supposed to love

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Speaker 1: and protect them, their pastors, their elders, and sometimes their families,

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Speaker 1: and still they found the courage to fight back at

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Speaker 1: considerable emotional cost and physical danger, trusting this time around

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Speaker 1: the D's Office would have their backs and he just didn't.

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Speaker 1: In our next episode, we would explain how we came

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Speaker 1: to this, Why do prosecution dropped the ball so badly

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Speaker 1: and what comes next for Nason Juaquin.

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Speaker 8: I don't think anyone listened to these victims. I don't

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Speaker 8: think the time was taken to actually hear their stories

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Speaker 8: and understand Luis del Mundo and understand that background in

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Speaker 8: history and that perspective that I said is necessary to

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Speaker 8: understand what happened.

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