translated from Spanish: The leader of The Light of the World to stand trial on 36 counts of forced child abuse

A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge found sufficient evidence to allow the case on 36 counts of sexual abuse and rape, including the leader of La Luz del Mundo, Naason Joaquín García, and two members of that church to go to trial.
Judge Ronald S. Coen issued the order on Tuesday for Garcia to stand trial on nearly two dozen criminal charges, including the enforced rape of a minor, allegedly committed in Southern California.
The decision was made after nearly two weeks of hearing, in which several witnesses were presented as well as the information collected from the cell phone that was confiscated from Joaquín García on the day he was arrested in Los Angeles on June 3, 2019.
 
Joaquín García, 51, is charged with 23 felonies, including the forced rape of a minor, forced oral copulation of a minor, unlawful sexual intercourse, a harmful act with a child, extortion, conspiracy and possession of child pornography.
On August 6, a Los Angeles court imposed a $90 million bond against the religious leader, an amount that was described by the Church as an “advance sentence.” Joaquín García’s defense had tried to have the case overturned for errors in the proceedings by taking him to the California Second District Court of Appeals, which last April dismissed the criminal proceedings for a technical failure and for which his lawyers awaited his release, with the coronavirus pandemic as a factor.
The office of state prosecutor Xavier Becerra again filed the indictment by raising the number of charges against Joaquín García and his two accomplices Alondra Ocampo, 37, and Susana Medina Oaxaca, 25.
The new indictment cites five victims, one of them identified as Jane Doe 5, who was allegedly sexually abused in February 2016. The complaint also accuses Ocampo of allegedly asking minors to strip naked and take pictures of his genitals to send to Joaquín García.
Between September 2017 and January 2018, Ocampo took three girls to an office building and “provided them with schoolgirl costumes, ordered them to touch their breasts and buttocks, and took pictures of them in doing so,” the complaint said. Ocampo is charged with 27 felonies, including forced rape of a minor, forced sexual penetration, trafficking of persons by acquiring a child to participate in a lascisive act, production and distribution of child pornography, among others.
For its part, it faces two serious offences of forced oral copulation.
A fourth defendant in the case, Azalea Rangel Melendez, faces a search and capture order.
On September 1, Joaquín García, Ocampo and Oaxaca will return to court for their guilty plea hearing.

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