Speaker 1: Before we jump in, we must warn you this episode
Speaker 1: contains content such as sexual abuse that may be disturbing
Speaker 1: to some people. Listener discretion is advised. Picture this December
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, Puertoayarta, Mexico. Flowers are in full bloom
Speaker 1: and you can hear the sound of waves crushing below
Speaker 1: the cliffs of the villa's gardens. What Moises Padilla does
Speaker 1: not notice the beautiful scenery Moises here. Samuel call for
Speaker 1: him from the balcony of the mansion, telling him to
Speaker 1: come inside, but Moises ignores him. He is too busy
Speaker 1: looking for a rock, a big one, a rock heavy
Speaker 1: enough to bush the head of some oil into a
Speaker 1: pulp and kill him.
Speaker 2: Mal Joannes Momento sipence matarlotamente pince mata.
Speaker 3: I felt awful. All I could think about was killing him.
Speaker 3: I looked at a rock and thought I'll kicked him
Speaker 3: in his knots and break his face with that stone.
Speaker 3: But I stopped. I told myself, no, no, no, If
Speaker 3: I do that, he'll end up a martyr and I'll
Speaker 3: be in jail for the rest of my life, or
Speaker 3: be killed in prison by the followers of the Light
Speaker 3: of the World.
Speaker 1: I imagine the memory of that rock flashed through Moises's
Speaker 1: head seventeen years later as he lay completely naked, bruce
Speaker 1: and bleeding on to call asphalt in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: If Moises had chosen action over mercy back then, he
Speaker 1: might have avoided this particular fate. Viciously stabbed over sixty
Speaker 1: times and left for dead on the side of a
Speaker 1: deserted road on the outskirts of Wallajara, Mexico, Moyses caught
Speaker 1: a glimpse of his attackers. The men held bent on
Speaker 1: destroying his life, and one of them. He recognized that
Speaker 1: man is what this story is all about. As the
Speaker 1: men walked away, Moses felt himself living his body, but
Speaker 1: he would survive, and so would his plan for revenge.
Speaker 1: I'm Robert T. Garza, and this is Sacred Scandal, Season two.
Speaker 1: La Us del Mundo, Episode two, Left for Dead. Moses
Speaker 1: Padilla grew up in the seventies and eighties Inner Moosa Provincia,
Speaker 1: a neighborhood in the Mexican city of Wallajare Inner Moosa Provincia.
Speaker 1: All of Moyses's friends, neighbors, teachers, basically everybody belonged to
Speaker 1: Lalus del Mundo or l DM for short. Moses was
Speaker 1: born into a church family. Mother joined after meeting his mother,
Speaker 1: Maria and Moises's grandmother. Maria's mother had been a member,
Speaker 1: serving under the original apostle, Aaron, who founded the church
Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties. We'll hear more about Aron later,
Speaker 1: but for now, what you need to know is this.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen eighties, LLDM was growing. Samuel Jaquin had
Speaker 1: taken the reins in the nineteen sixties after his father's
Speaker 1: Aaron's death, and Samuel had big plans. Under Samuel's leadership,
Speaker 1: the church was booming, expanding internationally and consolidating its importance
Speaker 1: and clouds in Mexico. Unlike his father, Aaron, Samuel treated
Speaker 1: LLM like a corporation, establishing clear hierarchies within the church,
Speaker 1: pushing for its international expansion, and consolidating a strict code
Speaker 1: of conduct for members. Life insider Mossa Provincia was structured
Speaker 1: around the church, and Moises Padilla's life was no different.
Speaker 1: As a boy, he founded and led the church's youth choir.
Speaker 1: He attended services three times a day, and in his
Speaker 1: spare time, he collected money for the temple. Unlike any
Speaker 1: good believer. Moses, his friends and family revered the Apostles
Speaker 1: sa Molhoakin like a god for Moises. Being born into
Speaker 1: a church family came with certain privileges. As a kid,
Speaker 1: Moses was often invited to someone's house the Casagrande or
Speaker 1: great house, to play with some Moelhuakin's children, or, as
Speaker 1: church insiders called them, the royal Princess. Moses felt very
Speaker 1: proud to be a part of it all. On one
Speaker 1: of those visits, when Moses was sixteen years old, some
Speaker 1: well invited Moises to stay for lunch that was considered
Speaker 1: a rare blessing. The apostles served a beautiful lobster meal
Speaker 1: and then invited Moises to drive him to his beach
Speaker 1: house in Portoayarta, several hours away. This was a true
Speaker 1: honor for Moises and his family could not be refused.
Speaker 1: To drive from Gualajara to Portoyerta is scenic. Two hundred
Speaker 1: miles of lush mountains transport you from one of the
Speaker 1: densest cities in Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. But Moises
Speaker 1: did not notice the gorgeous plains or mountains. He was
Speaker 1: disturbed by the man next to him. Samuel Juaquin, his apostle,
Speaker 1: his leader, a trusted family friend, suddenly put his hand
Speaker 1: on Moises's leg and began to move it upwards, and
Speaker 1: he did not stop. By the time they arrived at
Speaker 1: the beach house, Moises was trembling. He remembers being aroused
Speaker 1: and feeling terribly ashamed. Things only got warse inside the house.
Speaker 1: After it was all over, Moses ran outside to the
Speaker 1: garden and threw up.
Speaker 4: Or yo yovnia.
Speaker 3: All I could do was cry.
Speaker 1: Moys says, was upset and tried to comfort him.
Speaker 4: Yeah as in Musi and said no, no, there was
Speaker 4: a pilt.
Speaker 3: He was very tender. He told me, no, no, you
Speaker 3: must not feel bad because today you have learned the
Speaker 3: secrets of a servant of God. I asked, what secrets
Speaker 3: you have a wife? This is not an act of God,
Speaker 3: he says. You must understand that I'm an angel. Angels
Speaker 3: do not have sex. We can enjoy a man or
Speaker 3: a woman.
Speaker 1: Samoltolmois says that what had taken place between them was
Speaker 1: not profane, but divine, not rape, but a blessing. And
Speaker 1: then he told musays one other very important.
Speaker 2: Thing, nulidigas nada to Papa Nia tu sermanus nulisdigas na.
Speaker 3: Don't say anything to your dad or your brothers. Don't
Speaker 3: tell them anything, because if they leave the church, you
Speaker 3: will be responsible for their condemnation.
Speaker 1: Back in Wajara, Monses kept the abuse his secret. He
Speaker 1: told no one, not his parents or his sisters. The
Speaker 1: apostle had warned him that if he talked about what
Speaker 1: had happened, he and his family would be damned to hell.
Speaker 1: Shortly after his return, his fourteen year old sister Martha
Speaker 1: began acting strangely. She started wetting her bed, She stopped showering,
Speaker 1: combing her hair, and washing her clothes.
Speaker 4: One of mister Romanda's Martha me, one.
Speaker 3: Of my sisters, tells me that she is leaving home.
Speaker 3: She didn't want to tell me why.
Speaker 1: Concerned, Mosses pressed Martha for more details. At first, Martha
Speaker 1: refused to tell him anything, but little by little the
Speaker 1: truth came out, and soon an alliance formed between Muises
Speaker 1: and Martha. It was then the brother and sisters started
Speaker 1: a lifelong journey putting together the pieces of generations of
Speaker 1: abuse that went far beyond brother and sister. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that very soon. What Moyses learned from Martha's confession
Speaker 1: was that his sister had a story very similar to his.
Speaker 4: Own e Medico Quez Amoeila.
Speaker 3: And then she says that Samuel had raped her and
Speaker 3: that her mother had taken her when she was only thirteen.
Speaker 1: Martha's strange behavior began just after this encounter. Like Mois says,
Speaker 1: Martha was sworn to secrecy, threatened with the condemnation of
Speaker 1: their entire family to hell if she told. But unlike Moises,
Speaker 1: she was given to the apostle willingly by her mother.
Speaker 1: And then Martha told, Mois says.
Speaker 3: And it turns out that my mother also offered herself
Speaker 3: in at the age of thirteen.
Speaker 1: His own mother, Maria, had been raped as a girl
Speaker 1: by Ron SAME's father, an El d M's founder its
Speaker 1: very first Apostle. She had been taken by her mother,
Speaker 1: Moises's grandmother. All his life, moys has had heard the rumors.
Speaker 1: Rumors of the Apostles had once assault on his own stepsister,
Speaker 1: not yet twelve years old, of erotic costume parties the
Speaker 1: handmaid and arranged for Samuel's birthdays. He also remembered the
Speaker 1: young pretty girl Samuel surrounded himself with and the older
Speaker 1: handmaiden who always seemed to watch them like hawks. Rumors
Speaker 1: that the faithful listening obediently to their pastors dismissed as
Speaker 1: the work of evil apostates speaking for Satan. But Moyses
Speaker 1: couldn't deny the rumors any more. He was both witness
Speaker 1: and evidence. How to move forward with this knowledge, however,
Speaker 1: would not be easy. In l D, m accusations are hushed, punished,
Speaker 1: and denied from generation to generation. At the church. The
Speaker 1: mere mention of the apostles in proprieties is considered the
Speaker 1: gravest of sins, meriting eternal damnation in heaven and a
Speaker 1: harsh response from the Church on Earth. Members who leave
Speaker 1: the church are exiled and called impure an apostles. It's
Speaker 1: been two years since an incident with some will in Portoyata,
Speaker 1: two years of tough, horrifying revelations that hut turned Moyses's
Speaker 1: world upside down. He was now eighteen. He began saving money.
Speaker 1: He planned to leave the church and his family for good,
Speaker 1: but he couldn't stop thinking of his sister Martha, his
Speaker 1: new baby sister Miriam. Living would save himself, but not them,
Speaker 1: nor any other believer. He had to tell the truth,
Speaker 1: starting with his.
Speaker 4: Father innocent momento with look at you.
Speaker 3: And at that moment, what I did was to save
Speaker 3: some money in case my father did not believe us.
Speaker 3: What I did was to prepare everything to rent an
Speaker 3: apartment and take my sister with me in case my
Speaker 3: father kicked us out of the house, which is the
Speaker 3: most common thing that happens in this cult.
Speaker 1: Moises braced himself for a confrontation. After a couple of
Speaker 1: months of washing cars and tending houses, he was ready
Speaker 1: for the worst. Moyses approached his father and told him.
Speaker 2: Everything afuntek jo Ablo dees to commit.
Speaker 3: Fortunately, when I talked to my father about this, he
Speaker 3: listens to me.
Speaker 1: Not only did his father believe him, he agreed to
Speaker 1: leave the church with his son and young daughters. His
Speaker 1: mother and older sister, Magdalena were less understanding. They called
Speaker 1: moisays on his father liars and sinners and decided to
Speaker 1: stay put by Samuel's side.
Speaker 4: They prefily Glesia nolin Porto.
Speaker 3: She chose the church over everything. She left my baby sister,
Speaker 3: and he didn't FaZe her. Miriam was only three years old.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine she didn't care that she was choosing
Speaker 3: to stay in that church over her three year old daughter.
Speaker 1: For the first time in his life, Moyses was free.
Speaker 1: He felt relieved to be out from under the control
Speaker 1: of the apostles and the rest of the flock. However,
Speaker 1: he was not satisfied with simply walking away.
Speaker 4: He wanted justice daima Nazi in La.
Speaker 3: Of course, it was only natural that I'd come up
Speaker 3: with a plan of attack as strategy to put him
Speaker 3: in jail. I was focused.
Speaker 1: At twenty years old, Moyses started studying law, believing that
Speaker 1: this was the way to bring Samoil and LDM down.
Speaker 1: His father, Primitivo, a judge, gave him a reality check.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't finish my law degree because of my father,
Speaker 3: and with good reason. He would tell me that the
Speaker 3: country's laws existed but were rarely enforced.
Speaker 1: Primitivo then offered to help his son with his plan.
Speaker 4: Lo mimo medisee almost.
Speaker 3: He says to me, let's investigate the families that have left,
Speaker 3: the ones they call impure.
Speaker 1: So Moises and his father, in order to form a
Speaker 1: clear picture of the scope of someone's abuses, reached out
Speaker 1: to other families that had already they left the church.
Speaker 4: Musimos lat the carculas familias.
Speaker 3: We talked to those families and it was a river
Speaker 3: of tears, every one of them relieved the suffering sam
Speaker 3: Well had custom.
Speaker 1: Together, father and son began building a case against LLEDM,
Speaker 1: one that would show the abuses were not exceptional, but
Speaker 1: built into the church's operations, crimes that required the church's
Speaker 1: institutional oversight and protection to be enacted and covered up. Primitivo.
Speaker 1: Tolmis says that they must do this work in secrets
Speaker 1: until their case was strong enough, because once they went public,
Speaker 1: his father warned it would not be easy.
Speaker 3: Matta, they will kill you.
Speaker 1: Ever since the church's earliest days, LDM had carefully cultivated
Speaker 1: its earthly power. When Apostle ar Owned founded the church
Speaker 1: back in the nineteen twenties, Mexico was governed by the PRI,
Speaker 1: a single ruling party that held unchecked power for over
Speaker 1: seventy years, basically a dictatorship with little to know governmental
Speaker 1: checks or balances. What the ruling class wanted it got.
Speaker 1: LEDM worked willingly with the PRI. When the PRI needed
Speaker 1: something like a large number of people to attend rallies
Speaker 1: for the campaign work, or a huge base mobilized to
Speaker 1: vote one way or another. PRI only had to phone
Speaker 1: up the Apostle and say the word, and LEDM would
Speaker 1: quickly deploy its thousands of believers. It was not uncommon
Speaker 1: to have one hundred percent of her most provincials votes
Speaker 1: go to PRI. This relationship worked both ways. Pr got
Speaker 1: to use ledm's base, and LEDM was able to operate
Speaker 1: not only undisturbed by government authorities, but openly aided by them.
Speaker 1: For example, when Samuel decided to build a giant temple
Speaker 1: in Hermosa Provincia in nineteen eighty one, the plan encountered
Speaker 1: no pushback, no red tape, no pesky inspectors, and a
Speaker 1: full tax exemption. Add a corrupt political structure to a
Speaker 1: massive cult. Following and Yu get l uzel Mundo, an
Speaker 1: organization operating almost totally outside the law, yet in plain
Speaker 1: sight uncrackable. As former church insiders, Moyses and his father knew,
Speaker 1: it would not be easy to find justice. The pair
Speaker 1: spent over five years building their first case. They gathered
Speaker 1: testimonial after testimonial of the Apostle's abuses and corruption.
Speaker 4: Nopalsindo Juez said Toma Multovo.
Speaker 3: As a judge. My father summoned up all his courage
Speaker 3: and political connections and attempted to file a criminal case
Speaker 3: against them.
Speaker 1: Will Finally, Muses and his father filed acclaim against Samuel
Speaker 1: Juaquin for abuse.
Speaker 3: No no longer, but that ultimately fails.
Speaker 1: So they went back to the families and survivors, gathered
Speaker 1: more evidence, fathered another lawsuit, and another and another. Every
Speaker 1: single time, I says, and his father got stuck in
Speaker 1: one bureaucratic nightmare after another, bumped from office to office
Speaker 1: in a whirlwind of lost papers and misplaced evidence. After
Speaker 1: several fell lawsuits, Moses's father decided to pull some strings.
Speaker 1: Perhaps they could not win in Wallajara, so maybe they
Speaker 1: should try their luck in Mexico City. They hopped on
Speaker 1: a plane to visit an old schoolmate of his dad's,
Speaker 1: a high profile politician and tamin AD minister.
Speaker 4: Fum in Nocuiso. He at a COI.
Speaker 3: We went to his office, but he wanted nothing to
Speaker 3: do with it. It got heated and he ended up
Speaker 3: throwing my dad out of his office. He said he
Speaker 3: was busy and he had no time for this nonsense.
Speaker 3: He told him not to start trouble with religious leaders,
Speaker 3: they're untouchable in Mexico.
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety four, twelve years after Moyses and his
Speaker 1: father left the church, mister Padilla passed away without saying
Speaker 1: his children get any justice. Before he died, he shared
Speaker 1: something with his son that has to find Moyses's life
Speaker 1: ever since.
Speaker 4: Dreguerdo and Papa as in.
Speaker 2: Siundia, dios toga to puerpo para kessum baso.
Speaker 3: I remember my dad telling me, if God calls you
Speaker 3: one day to be the vessel that brings justice for
Speaker 3: all the children that have been raped, for all elderly
Speaker 3: that had their homes taken away, and for all the parents'
Speaker 3: outrage over their heritage, you must do it. Don't be afraid,
Speaker 3: just do it. Nothing will happen to you.
Speaker 1: Moyses knew that to defeat el DM he would need
Speaker 1: a better plan. Anonymous testimonials would not be enough. He
Speaker 1: teamed up with Fernando Flores, the church's longtime archivist and historian.
Speaker 1: Flores helped Mouses find survivors willing to speak out publicly
Speaker 1: against l DM, no matter the cost. By the end
Speaker 1: of the summer of nineteen ninety seven, the newly formed
Speaker 1: Front was ready.
Speaker 4: El gurupido. The Valiantes has to be on the paramison
Speaker 4: as it was a.
Speaker 3: Small, brave group of people. In my eyes, they were heroes.
Speaker 3: It was a tough time. There was no social media,
Speaker 3: and we knew that we were facing a political and
Speaker 3: economic monster.
Speaker 1: Moises and the other members of the group went on
Speaker 1: to file criminal complaints in Mexico City. They knew they
Speaker 1: were likely to be rejected or indefinitely archived by the authorities,
Speaker 1: but this time they got receipts.
Speaker 4: Nonos geria acetarla de nuncia.
Speaker 3: They did not want to accept the complaints, and we
Speaker 3: knew they wouldn't. We believed that the best option at
Speaker 3: that point was to have the attorney's stamp and signature.
Speaker 3: We wanted the time and date stamped right then and
Speaker 3: there in his office, and so we played dumb and
Speaker 3: act like we weren't sure if they could do us
Speaker 3: the favor. We were ensure they would give us a
Speaker 3: receipt acknowledging the complaint, but they gave it to us
Speaker 3: as planned.
Speaker 1: Their filing went nowhere, but this time Moises and his
Speaker 1: group would use Mexico's bureaucratic nightmare to their advantage. With
Speaker 1: the documents in hand, they went on newsrooms and national
Speaker 1: talk shows publicly denouncing the Apostle and LDM for abuse.
Speaker 1: Sam Oil and LDM tried to get in front of
Speaker 1: the story, but the damage was inescapable. They went from
Speaker 1: the nile to full bloom panic. Some Oil and his
Speaker 1: minions even attempted to buy up all the newspapers covering
Speaker 1: the subject in Wallajara and destroy them, but it was pointless.
Speaker 1: The story was everywhere more on that after the break
Speaker 1: Moises on the group had chosen to sidestep the inefficient
Speaker 1: and corrupt legals system and go straight to the court
Speaker 1: of public opinion. After appearing on some of the most
Speaker 1: important newscasts in the country like televisas, the Traslanatissia and
Speaker 1: SAW the Mexico and the Luni Versal, the group was
Speaker 1: overwhelmed with requests for interviews by newspapers, radio stations, and
Speaker 1: TV channels. They could feel the tides changing. Their next
Speaker 1: step was a big public action, a hunger strike. In
Speaker 1: the winter of nineteen ninety seven, Moises and a group
Speaker 1: of ledm's defectors set up camping downtown Mexico City. Write
Speaker 1: under what amounts to Mexico's Homeland Security Offices, the offices
Speaker 1: that in the country grant any annual churches a license
Speaker 1: to operate on Mexican soil. The Hunger's strike was not easy.
Speaker 1: There was no rest at the campsite. Ledm members constantly
Speaker 1: harassed them. They threw thrush at the strikers, honked and
Speaker 1: shouted at all hours of the night, and even ran
Speaker 1: their cars into the tents at the site. Moses had
Speaker 1: to maintain a constant vie vilence. But Moyses knew he
Speaker 1: was getting under the Apostle's skin when a lawyer showed
Speaker 1: up with a briefcase.
Speaker 4: Samuel Joaquin Mando la Luzel Mundo.
Speaker 3: Samuel Joaquim sent two of his lawyers from the light
Speaker 3: of the world with a four million dollar brivee. They
Speaker 3: said that brother Samuel was upset and saddened by what
Speaker 3: he had done and the damage he had got to
Speaker 3: the church. He sends this money as an apology and
Speaker 3: hopes we can put this matter to rest.
Speaker 1: When Moyses opened the briefcase, all he felt was rage.
Speaker 3: Korah I was speechless until one of the lawyers told me,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of money. Moy says, I'm normally not
Speaker 3: a rude or nasty person, but at that moment I
Speaker 3: told him to take the damn money and go. I
Speaker 3: asked them to do me a huge favor and take
Speaker 3: every single one hundred dollar bill and stick it up
Speaker 3: his ass.
Speaker 1: A couple weeks later, Samuel's lawyer visited again, this time
Speaker 1: with six million dollars. Again Moises refused. Immediately after, Mosas
Speaker 1: was invited into Mexico's Homeland Security office for a private
Speaker 1: meeting with the Secretary of the Interior.
Speaker 3: Yeah, secretarial, and that's when the Secretary of the Interior
Speaker 3: yelled at me, insulted me, and asked if I had
Speaker 3: a visa for the United States. I told him yes.
Speaker 3: He told me to go to the United States and
Speaker 3: as a favor, I could go in a government plane.
Speaker 3: Arriving in a government plane will ensure I wouldn't be searched.
Speaker 3: He said, take your money and get lost. I don't
Speaker 3: need you costing me any more problems. Then, with a
Speaker 3: straight face, he says, I know you're right, but there
Speaker 3: is no room in prison for so many Samolites.
Speaker 4: He's a miss Manocia for Pando mess question.
Speaker 3: That same night, I was kidnapped.
Speaker 1: That night, who says returned home to Arajara. He was exhausted.
Speaker 1: The hunger strike had gone nowhere. He was looking forward
Speaker 1: to a couple of nights rest at home before regrouping
Speaker 1: and deciding what to do next. That evening, when he
Speaker 1: stepped out to buy some groceries, six men jumped him
Speaker 1: and shoved him into a car with tinted windows. He
Speaker 1: imagined he would be taken to one of the tunnels
Speaker 1: or secret rooms hidden under Ledm's main temple, the one
Speaker 1: Samuel had built in the nineteen eighties. But that's not
Speaker 1: what happened.
Speaker 4: La. He standoned and through the Losrangos.
Speaker 3: They took me to the farmland around Tonella, and that's
Speaker 3: when they tortured me.
Speaker 1: They drove to the outskirts of the city into an
Speaker 1: abandoned warehouse and proceeded to beat him furiously, yelling at
Speaker 1: him that he should have kept his mouth shut, And
Speaker 1: then several of them took out their.
Speaker 3: Knives, and just as they're stabbing me, I'm freed and
Speaker 3: Sante Sally. It was like an out of body experience.
Speaker 3: I can look down at the six men about to torture.
Speaker 1: Me, Moises says, he was able to clearly see his
Speaker 1: attackers and that he knew they were federal police officers.
Speaker 4: We have been since Cio pourque la luzel Mounto.
Speaker 3: Simply put, the light of the world was connected and
Speaker 3: pulled favors. Everyone knew that Samuela and his children had
Speaker 3: bodyguards who were paid for by the government.
Speaker 1: Most of the men he couldn't place, but there was
Speaker 1: one face he did recognize, a man Moisees had known
Speaker 1: all his life. He had often played with him as
Speaker 1: a little boy.
Speaker 4: Sally or mean Sante Sally.
Speaker 3: My spiritual body comes out, or my consciousness comes out.
Speaker 3: I can look at the six who were going to
Speaker 3: torture me. The truth is believe me didn't care. I
Speaker 3: knew that I was going to a better place.
Speaker 1: But at that moment he was oblivious, floating between life
Speaker 1: and death on experience.
Speaker 3: It was a beautiful experience. The moment thinking energy meets
Speaker 3: your quantum energy. It's an energy most humans are unaware of.
Speaker 3: You exist, what you do, not have a body, You see,
Speaker 3: but have no eyes. You think, but you don't have
Speaker 3: a brain. It's something unique that breaks the loss of physics, chemistry,
Speaker 3: everything really.
Speaker 1: After stabbing Moys says over sixty times, his neck, his
Speaker 1: back and torso. The man carried his limb body back
Speaker 1: to the van, drove a couple of miles and left
Speaker 1: him for dead at the side of the road. What moisays,
Speaker 1: didn't I he just spent three or four hours in
Speaker 1: his beautiful out of body experience until he woke up
Speaker 1: naked and kicked.
Speaker 2: Him blood dregreso a miguerpo. He medesa marro comens.
Speaker 3: I woke up and untied myself. I started walking towards
Speaker 3: the road and eventually began crossing the Tonala Highway. I
Speaker 3: stopped on the yellow line and sea lights coming towards me,
Speaker 3: standing there naked, when hand covering my genitals and the
Speaker 3: other hand waving them to stop. Aji jo THEWN testimonial.
Speaker 3: They took me to a local police station. I didn't
Speaker 3: think i'd get another chance, so I gave a brief statement,
Speaker 3: something that they could have on record.
Speaker 1: Afterwards, Monses is taken to a local hospital. It's done
Speaker 1: just a couple hours after his attack. Word gets out
Speaker 1: and his friends and family arrive, and so does Walajara's
Speaker 1: district attorney, el Era.
Speaker 3: He wasn't just a district attorney, but also a member
Speaker 3: of the Light of the World and even had family
Speaker 3: members that were part of the choir.
Speaker 1: The district attorney cured Moyses's friends and family out of
Speaker 1: the room. Moyses was sure he had come to finish
Speaker 1: the job. Instead, he was offered another deal Meli.
Speaker 3: He asked me, how much will it take to shut
Speaker 3: you up? You're a thorn at my side, you son
Speaker 3: of a bitch. Just give me a number that will
Speaker 3: shut you up and make you disappear.
Speaker 1: Of course, Moyses refused, but it was clear his life
Speaker 1: was in serious danger. He wanted to leave the hospital
Speaker 1: right then and there, but couldn't. He stayed at the
Speaker 1: clinic for almost a week, drifting in and out of consciousness.
Speaker 1: Shortly before he was discharged, the district attorney paid him
Speaker 1: another visit. Moses claimed his attackers were federalis, so in
Speaker 1: order to prove him wrong, the district attorney brought a
Speaker 1: set of headshots for Moises to identify.
Speaker 3: For those, the district attorney came back with two albums
Speaker 3: full of tiny pictures. I looked through each one carefully
Speaker 3: and picked one guy out, then another, And as I
Speaker 3: kept looking through, I pointed at six photos, six people
Speaker 3: I recognized in my kidnapping. Was it a coincidence that
Speaker 3: the same six judicial police officers had asked for the
Speaker 3: day off on the day of my attack. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: even after picking them up, there was never an investigation.
Speaker 1: The men who attacked moys says, were never prosecuted for
Speaker 1: their crime, not even the one man whom moy says
Speaker 1: is sure he so committed, the one he knew intimately
Speaker 1: his childhood playmate, Samuel's own son, Nason ja King Garcia.
Speaker 3: I think Nason ordered the attack as a gift to Samuel.
Speaker 3: It was almost February fourteenth.
Speaker 1: February fourteenth is Amael's birthday, and this.
Speaker 3: Was his way of owing his dad that he deserved
Speaker 3: to lead.
Speaker 1: Samo Jakin was never punished for his crimes. He died
Speaker 1: peacefully in Walahara in December twenty fourteen, surrounded by his wife,
Speaker 1: his children, attended by his many young handmaidens. Sixteen years
Speaker 1: after Moses identified him as one of the men who
Speaker 1: stabbed him less than a week after Samuel Hawkins's death,
Speaker 1: Nasan Juakin Garcia fulfilled his destiny, taking his rightful place
Speaker 1: as the present day leader of La uzel Mundo. Musespadeia
Speaker 1: spent forty days recovering and fled to the United States.
Speaker 1: In the year two thousand. He was granted asylum and
Speaker 1: given a new identity by the FBI, but his fight
Speaker 1: is not over.
Speaker 4: Years.
Speaker 3: I told myself I needed to go to the United
Speaker 3: States because that's where the church truly makes their money.
Speaker 3: That's where the immigrants are, where they earned dollars, and
Speaker 3: more importantly, that's the country where I can leave a
Speaker 3: permanent mark on the record. They'll forever be known as criminals.
Speaker 1: On our next episode, we learn how ledm became untouchable
Speaker 1: and how the founder Aroun convinced thousands of people he
Speaker 1: was second only to God. I think that the problem
Speaker 1: is here is the sick mind.
Speaker 3: And I believe that Aaron Elsebio essentially was a sick person,
Speaker 3: and he was a pedophile, and that he was a
Speaker 3: man from the army.
Speaker 1: He was a man of power. Sacred scandala uzel Mundo
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Speaker 1: ta Garza, produced by Savin Jensen with the help of Estella,
Speaker 1: I amt Reynald Gutierrez and an Isabel Octavio. Written by
Speaker 1: myself and Monissa Henri's research by Roberta Garza. Additional reporting
Speaker 1: by Florenzia monsals Geralcia. Fact checking for this episode by
Speaker 1: Sean Merchant. Engineering by Uga Mendoza. Sound designed by Patrick Quiniones.
Speaker 1: Original music by Patrick Hart, Edited by Vira Alsop and
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