June 1, 2023 • 32 mins
Moises Padilla was brutally attacked, stabbed 68 times after denouncing the heinous crimes committed by the religious group called La Luz del Mundo
It was in 1998 when Moises Padilla was brutally attacked, stabbed 68 times after denouncing the heinous crimes committed by the religious group called La Luz del Mundo, the largest cult on earth which, after decades of abuse, has recently come to light.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Before we jump in, we must warn you this episode
contains content such as sexual abuse that may be disturbing
to some people. Listener discretion is advised. Picture this December
nineteen eighty one, Puertoayarta, Mexico. Flowers are in full bloom
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and you can hear the sound of waves crushing below
the cliffs of the villa's gardens. What Moises Padilla does
not notice the beautiful scenery Moises here. Samuel call for
him from the balcony of the mansion, telling him to
come inside, but Moises ignores him. He is too busy
looking for a rock, a big one, a rock heavy
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enough to bush the head of some oil into a
pulp and kill him.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mal Joannes Momento sipence matarlotamente pince mata.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I felt awful. All I could think about was killing him.
I looked at a rock and thought I'll kicked him
in his knots and break his face with that stone.
But I stopped. I told myself, no, no, no, If
I do that, he'll end up a martyr and I'll
be in jail for the rest of my life, or
be killed in prison by the followers of the Light
of the World.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I imagine the memory of that rock flashed through Moises's
head seventeen years later as he lay completely naked, bruce
and bleeding on to call asphalt in the middle of nowhere.
If Moises had chosen action over mercy back then, he
might have avoided this particular fate. Viciously stabbed over sixty
times and left for dead on the side of a
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deserted road on the outskirts of Wallajara, Mexico, Moyses caught
a glimpse of his attackers. The men held bent on
destroying his life, and one of them. He recognized that
man is what this story is all about. As the
men walked away, Moses felt himself living his body, but
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he would survive, and so would his plan for revenge.
I'm Robert T. Garza, and this is Sacred Scandal, Season two.
La Us del Mundo, Episode two, Left for Dead. Moses
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Padilla grew up in the seventies and eighties Inner Moosa Provincia,
a neighborhood in the Mexican city of Wallajare Inner Moosa Provincia.
All of Moyses's friends, neighbors, teachers, basically everybody belonged to
Lalus del Mundo or l DM for short. Moses was
born into a church family. Mother joined after meeting his mother,
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Maria and Moises's grandmother. Maria's mother had been a member,
serving under the original apostle, Aaron, who founded the church
in the nineteen twenties. We'll hear more about Aron later,
but for now, what you need to know is this.
In the nineteen eighties, LLDM was growing. Samuel Jaquin had
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taken the reins in the nineteen sixties after his father's
Aaron's death, and Samuel had big plans. Under Samuel's leadership,
the church was booming, expanding internationally and consolidating its importance
and clouds in Mexico. Unlike his father, Aaron, Samuel treated
LLM like a corporation, establishing clear hierarchies within the church,
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pushing for its international expansion, and consolidating a strict code
of conduct for members. Life insider Mossa Provincia was structured
around the church, and Moises Padilla's life was no different.
As a boy, he founded and led the church's youth choir.
He attended services three times a day, and in his
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spare time, he collected money for the temple. Unlike any
good believer. Moses, his friends and family revered the Apostles
sa Molhoakin like a god for Moises. Being born into
a church family came with certain privileges. As a kid,
Moses was often invited to someone's house the Casagrande or
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great house, to play with some Moelhuakin's children, or, as
church insiders called them, the royal Princess. Moses felt very
proud to be a part of it all. On one
of those visits, when Moses was sixteen years old, some
well invited Moises to stay for lunch that was considered
a rare blessing. The apostles served a beautiful lobster meal
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and then invited Moises to drive him to his beach
house in Portoayarta, several hours away. This was a true
honor for Moises and his family could not be refused.
To drive from Gualajara to Portoyerta is scenic. Two hundred
miles of lush mountains transport you from one of the
densest cities in Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. But Moises
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did not notice the gorgeous plains or mountains. He was
disturbed by the man next to him. Samuel Juaquin, his apostle,
his leader, a trusted family friend, suddenly put his hand
on Moises's leg and began to move it upwards, and
he did not stop. By the time they arrived at
the beach house, Moises was trembling. He remembers being aroused
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and feeling terribly ashamed. Things only got warse inside the house.
After it was all over, Moses ran outside to the
garden and threw up.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Or yo yovnia.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
All I could do was cry.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Moys says, was upset and tried to comfort him.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah as in Musi and said no, no, there was
a pilt.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
He was very tender. He told me, no, no, you
must not feel bad because today you have learned the
secrets of a servant of God. I asked, what secrets
you have a wife? This is not an act of God,
he says. You must understand that I'm an angel. Angels
do not have sex. We can enjoy a man or
a woman.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Samoltolmois says that what had taken place between them was
not profane, but divine, not rape, but a blessing. And
then he told musays one other very important.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Thing, nulidigas nada to Papa Nia tu sermanus nulisdigas na.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Don't say anything to your dad or your brothers. Don't
tell them anything, because if they leave the church, you
will be responsible for their condemnation.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Back in Wajara, Monses kept the abuse his secret. He
told no one, not his parents or his sisters. The
apostle had warned him that if he talked about what
had happened, he and his family would be damned to hell.
Shortly after his return, his fourteen year old sister Martha
began acting strangely. She started wetting her bed, She stopped showering,
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combing her hair, and washing her clothes.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
One of mister Romanda's Martha me, one.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Of my sisters, tells me that she is leaving home.
She didn't want to tell me why.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Concerned, Mosses pressed Martha for more details. At first, Martha
refused to tell him anything, but little by little the
truth came out, and soon an alliance formed between Muises
and Martha. It was then the brother and sisters started
a lifelong journey putting together the pieces of generations of
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abuse that went far beyond brother and sister. We'll get
to that very soon. What Moyses learned from Martha's confession
was that his sister had a story very similar to his.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Own e Medico Quez Amoeila.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And then she says that Samuel had raped her and
that her mother had taken her when she was only thirteen.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Martha's strange behavior began just after this encounter. Like Mois says,
Martha was sworn to secrecy, threatened with the condemnation of
their entire family to hell if she told. But unlike Moises,
she was given to the apostle willingly by her mother.
And then Martha told, Mois says.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And it turns out that my mother also offered herself
in at the age of thirteen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
His own mother, Maria, had been raped as a girl
by Ron SAME's father, an El d M's founder its
very first Apostle. She had been taken by her mother,
Moises's grandmother. All his life, moys has had heard the rumors.
Rumors of the Apostles had once assault on his own stepsister,
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not yet twelve years old, of erotic costume parties the
handmaid and arranged for Samuel's birthdays. He also remembered the
young pretty girl Samuel surrounded himself with and the older
handmaiden who always seemed to watch them like hawks. Rumors
that the faithful listening obediently to their pastors dismissed as
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the work of evil apostates speaking for Satan. But Moyses
couldn't deny the rumors any more. He was both witness
and evidence. How to move forward with this knowledge, however,
would not be easy. In l D, m accusations are hushed, punished,
and denied from generation to generation. At the church. The
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mere mention of the apostles in proprieties is considered the
gravest of sins, meriting eternal damnation in heaven and a
harsh response from the Church on Earth. Members who leave
the church are exiled and called impure an apostles. It's
been two years since an incident with some will in Portoyata,
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two years of tough, horrifying revelations that hut turned Moyses's
world upside down. He was now eighteen. He began saving money.
He planned to leave the church and his family for good,
but he couldn't stop thinking of his sister Martha, his
new baby sister Miriam. Living would save himself, but not them,
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nor any other believer. He had to tell the truth,
starting with his.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Father innocent momento with look at you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And at that moment, what I did was to save
some money in case my father did not believe us.
What I did was to prepare everything to rent an
apartment and take my sister with me in case my
father kicked us out of the house, which is the
most common thing that happens in this cult.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Moises braced himself for a confrontation. After a couple of
months of washing cars and tending houses, he was ready
for the worst. Moyses approached his father and told him.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Everything afuntek jo Ablo dees to commit.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Fortunately, when I talked to my father about this, he
listens to me.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Not only did his father believe him, he agreed to
leave the church with his son and young daughters. His
mother and older sister, Magdalena were less understanding. They called
moisays on his father liars and sinners and decided to
stay put by Samuel's side.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
They prefily Glesia nolin Porto.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
She chose the church over everything. She left my baby sister,
and he didn't FaZe her. Miriam was only three years old.
Can you imagine she didn't care that she was choosing
to stay in that church over her three year old daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
For the first time in his life, Moyses was free.
He felt relieved to be out from under the control
of the apostles and the rest of the flock. However,
he was not satisfied with simply walking away.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
He wanted justice daima Nazi in La.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Of course, it was only natural that I'd come up
with a plan of attack as strategy to put him
in jail. I was focused.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
At twenty years old, Moyses started studying law, believing that
this was the way to bring Samoil and LDM down.
His father, Primitivo, a judge, gave him a reality check.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
No, I didn't finish my law degree because of my father,
and with good reason. He would tell me that the
country's laws existed but were rarely enforced.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Primitivo then offered to help his son with his plan.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Lo mimo medisee almost.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
He says to me, let's investigate the families that have left,
the ones they call impure.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So Moises and his father, in order to form a
clear picture of the scope of someone's abuses, reached out
to other families that had already they left the church.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Musimos lat the carculas familias.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
We talked to those families and it was a river
of tears, every one of them relieved the suffering sam
Well had custom.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Together, father and son began building a case against LLEDM,
one that would show the abuses were not exceptional, but
built into the church's operations, crimes that required the church's
institutional oversight and protection to be enacted and covered up. Primitivo.
Tolmis says that they must do this work in secrets
until their case was strong enough, because once they went public,
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his father warned it would not be easy.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Matta, they will kill you.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Ever since the church's earliest days, LDM had carefully cultivated
its earthly power. When Apostle ar Owned founded the church
back in the nineteen twenties, Mexico was governed by the PRI,
a single ruling party that held unchecked power for over
seventy years, basically a dictatorship with little to know governmental
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checks or balances. What the ruling class wanted it got.
LEDM worked willingly with the PRI. When the PRI needed
something like a large number of people to attend rallies
for the campaign work, or a huge base mobilized to
vote one way or another. PRI only had to phone
up the Apostle and say the word, and LEDM would
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quickly deploy its thousands of believers. It was not uncommon
to have one hundred percent of her most provincials votes
go to PRI. This relationship worked both ways. Pr got
to use ledm's base, and LEDM was able to operate
not only undisturbed by government authorities, but openly aided by them.
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For example, when Samuel decided to build a giant temple
in Hermosa Provincia in nineteen eighty one, the plan encountered
no pushback, no red tape, no pesky inspectors, and a
full tax exemption. Add a corrupt political structure to a
massive cult. Following and Yu get l uzel Mundo, an
organization operating almost totally outside the law, yet in plain
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sight uncrackable. As former church insiders, Moyses and his father knew,
it would not be easy to find justice. The pair
spent over five years building their first case. They gathered
testimonial after testimonial of the Apostle's abuses and corruption.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Nopalsindo Juez said Toma Multovo.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
As a judge. My father summoned up all his courage
and political connections and attempted to file a criminal case
against them.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Will Finally, Muses and his father filed acclaim against Samuel
Juaquin for abuse.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
No no longer, but that ultimately fails.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So they went back to the families and survivors, gathered
more evidence, fathered another lawsuit, and another and another. Every
single time, I says, and his father got stuck in
one bureaucratic nightmare after another, bumped from office to office
in a whirlwind of lost papers and misplaced evidence. After
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several fell lawsuits, Moses's father decided to pull some strings.
Perhaps they could not win in Wallajara, so maybe they
should try their luck in Mexico City. They hopped on
a plane to visit an old schoolmate of his dad's,
a high profile politician and tamin AD minister.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Fum in Nocuiso. He at a COI.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
We went to his office, but he wanted nothing to
do with it. It got heated and he ended up
throwing my dad out of his office. He said he
was busy and he had no time for this nonsense.
He told him not to start trouble with religious leaders,
they're untouchable in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
In nineteen ninety four, twelve years after Moyses and his
father left the church, mister Padilla passed away without saying
his children get any justice. Before he died, he shared
something with his son that has to find Moyses's life
ever since.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Dreguerdo and Papa as in.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Siundia, dios toga to puerpo para kessum baso.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I remember my dad telling me, if God calls you
one day to be the vessel that brings justice for
all the children that have been raped, for all elderly
that had their homes taken away, and for all the parents'
outrage over their heritage, you must do it. Don't be afraid,
just do it. Nothing will happen to you.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Moyses knew that to defeat el DM he would need
a better plan. Anonymous testimonials would not be enough. He
teamed up with Fernando Flores, the church's longtime archivist and historian.
Flores helped Mouses find survivors willing to speak out publicly
against l DM, no matter the cost. By the end
of the summer of nineteen ninety seven, the newly formed
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Front was ready.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
El gurupido. The Valiantes has to be on the paramison
as it was a.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Small, brave group of people. In my eyes, they were heroes.
It was a tough time. There was no social media,
and we knew that we were facing a political and
economic monster.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Moises and the other members of the group went on
to file criminal complaints in Mexico City. They knew they
were likely to be rejected or indefinitely archived by the authorities,
but this time they got receipts.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Nonos geria acetarla de nuncia.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
They did not want to accept the complaints, and we
knew they wouldn't. We believed that the best option at
that point was to have the attorney's stamp and signature.
We wanted the time and date stamped right then and
there in his office, and so we played dumb and
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act like we weren't sure if they could do us
the favor. We were ensure they would give us a
receipt acknowledging the complaint, but they gave it to us
as planned.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Their filing went nowhere, but this time Moises and his
group would use Mexico's bureaucratic nightmare to their advantage. With
the documents in hand, they went on newsrooms and national
talk shows publicly denouncing the Apostle and LDM for abuse.
Sam Oil and LDM tried to get in front of
the story, but the damage was inescapable. They went from
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the nile to full bloom panic. Some Oil and his
minions even attempted to buy up all the newspapers covering
the subject in Wallajara and destroy them, but it was pointless.
The story was everywhere more on that after the break
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Moises on the group had chosen to sidestep the inefficient
and corrupt legals system and go straight to the court
of public opinion. After appearing on some of the most
important newscasts in the country like televisas, the Traslanatissia and
SAW the Mexico and the Luni Versal, the group was
overwhelmed with requests for interviews by newspapers, radio stations, and
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TV channels. They could feel the tides changing. Their next
step was a big public action, a hunger strike. In
the winter of nineteen ninety seven, Moises and a group
of ledm's defectors set up camping downtown Mexico City. Write
under what amounts to Mexico's Homeland Security Offices, the offices
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that in the country grant any annual churches a license
to operate on Mexican soil. The Hunger's strike was not easy.
There was no rest at the campsite. Ledm members constantly
harassed them. They threw thrush at the strikers, honked and
shouted at all hours of the night, and even ran
their cars into the tents at the site. Moses had
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to maintain a constant vie vilence. But Moyses knew he
was getting under the Apostle's skin when a lawyer showed
up with a briefcase.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Samuel Joaquin Mando la Luzel Mundo.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Samuel Joaquim sent two of his lawyers from the light
of the world with a four million dollar brivee. They
said that brother Samuel was upset and saddened by what
he had done and the damage he had got to
the church. He sends this money as an apology and
hopes we can put this matter to rest.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
When Moyses opened the briefcase, all he felt was rage.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Korah I was speechless until one of the lawyers told me,
it's a lot of money. Moy says, I'm normally not
a rude or nasty person, but at that moment I
told him to take the damn money and go. I
asked them to do me a huge favor and take
every single one hundred dollar bill and stick it up
his ass.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
A couple weeks later, Samuel's lawyer visited again, this time
with six million dollars. Again Moises refused. Immediately after, Mosas
was invited into Mexico's Homeland Security office for a private
meeting with the Secretary of the Interior.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, secretarial, and that's when the Secretary of the Interior
yelled at me, insulted me, and asked if I had
a visa for the United States. I told him yes.
He told me to go to the United States and
as a favor, I could go in a government plane.
Arriving in a government plane will ensure I wouldn't be searched.
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He said, take your money and get lost. I don't
need you costing me any more problems. Then, with a
straight face, he says, I know you're right, but there
is no room in prison for so many Samolites.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
He's a miss Manocia for Pando mess question.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That same night, I was kidnapped.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That night, who says returned home to Arajara. He was exhausted.
The hunger strike had gone nowhere. He was looking forward
to a couple of nights rest at home before regrouping
and deciding what to do next. That evening, when he
stepped out to buy some groceries, six men jumped him
and shoved him into a car with tinted windows. He
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imagined he would be taken to one of the tunnels
or secret rooms hidden under Ledm's main temple, the one
Samuel had built in the nineteen eighties. But that's not
what happened.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
La. He standoned and through the Losrangos.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
They took me to the farmland around Tonella, and that's
when they tortured me.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
They drove to the outskirts of the city into an
abandoned warehouse and proceeded to beat him furiously, yelling at
him that he should have kept his mouth shut, And
then several of them took out their.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Knives, and just as they're stabbing me, I'm freed and
Sante Sally. It was like an out of body experience.
I can look down at the six men about to torture.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Me, Moises says, he was able to clearly see his
attackers and that he knew they were federal police officers.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
We have been since Cio pourque la luzel Mounto.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Simply put, the light of the world was connected and
pulled favors. Everyone knew that Samuela and his children had
bodyguards who were paid for by the government.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Most of the men he couldn't place, but there was
one face he did recognize, a man Moisees had known
all his life. He had often played with him as
a little boy.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Sally or mean Sante Sally.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
My spiritual body comes out, or my consciousness comes out.
I can look at the six who were going to
torture me. The truth is believe me didn't care. I
knew that I was going to a better place.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But at that moment he was oblivious, floating between life
and death on experience.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It was a beautiful experience. The moment thinking energy meets
your quantum energy. It's an energy most humans are unaware of.
You exist, what you do, not have a body, You see,
but have no eyes. You think, but you don't have
a brain. It's something unique that breaks the loss of physics, chemistry,
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everything really.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
After stabbing Moys says over sixty times, his neck, his
back and torso. The man carried his limb body back
to the van, drove a couple of miles and left
him for dead at the side of the road. What moisays,
didn't I he just spent three or four hours in
his beautiful out of body experience until he woke up
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naked and kicked.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Him blood dregreso a miguerpo. He medesa marro comens.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I woke up and untied myself. I started walking towards
the road and eventually began crossing the Tonala Highway. I
stopped on the yellow line and sea lights coming towards me,
standing there naked, when hand covering my genitals and the
other hand waving them to stop. Aji jo THEWN testimonial.
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They took me to a local police station. I didn't
think i'd get another chance, so I gave a brief statement,
something that they could have on record.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Afterwards, Monses is taken to a local hospital. It's done
just a couple hours after his attack. Word gets out
and his friends and family arrive, and so does Walajara's
district attorney, el Era.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
He wasn't just a district attorney, but also a member
of the Light of the World and even had family
members that were part of the choir.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The district attorney cured Moyses's friends and family out of
the room. Moyses was sure he had come to finish
the job. Instead, he was offered another deal Meli.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He asked me, how much will it take to shut
you up? You're a thorn at my side, you son
of a bitch. Just give me a number that will
shut you up and make you disappear.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Of course, Moyses refused, but it was clear his life
was in serious danger. He wanted to leave the hospital
right then and there, but couldn't. He stayed at the
clinic for almost a week, drifting in and out of consciousness.
Shortly before he was discharged, the district attorney paid him
another visit. Moses claimed his attackers were federalis, so in
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order to prove him wrong, the district attorney brought a
set of headshots for Moises to identify.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
For those, the district attorney came back with two albums
full of tiny pictures. I looked through each one carefully
and picked one guy out, then another, And as I
kept looking through, I pointed at six photos, six people
I recognized in my kidnapping. Was it a coincidence that
the same six judicial police officers had asked for the
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day off on the day of my attack. Yeah, And
even after picking them up, there was never an investigation.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The men who attacked moys says, were never prosecuted for
their crime, not even the one man whom moy says
is sure he so committed, the one he knew intimately
his childhood playmate, Samuel's own son, Nason ja King Garcia.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I think Nason ordered the attack as a gift to Samuel.
It was almost February fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
February fourteenth is Amael's birthday, and this.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Was his way of owing his dad that he deserved
to lead.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Samo Jakin was never punished for his crimes. He died
peacefully in Walahara in December twenty fourteen, surrounded by his wife,
his children, attended by his many young handmaidens. Sixteen years
after Moses identified him as one of the men who
stabbed him less than a week after Samuel Hawkins's death,
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Nasan Juakin Garcia fulfilled his destiny, taking his rightful place
as the present day leader of La uzel Mundo. Musespadeia
spent forty days recovering and fled to the United States.
In the year two thousand. He was granted asylum and
given a new identity by the FBI, but his fight
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is not over.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Years.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I told myself I needed to go to the United
States because that's where the church truly makes their money.
That's where the immigrants are, where they earned dollars, and
more importantly, that's the country where I can leave a
permanent mark on the record. They'll forever be known as criminals.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
On our next episode, we learn how ledm became untouchable
and how the founder Aroun convinced thousands of people he
was second only to God. I think that the problem
is here is the sick mind.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
And I believe that Aaron Elsebio essentially was a sick person,
and he was a pedophile, and that he was a
man from the army.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
He was a man of power. Sacred scandala uzel Mundo
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Before we jump in, we must warn you this episode
contains content such as sexual abuse that may be disturbing
to some people. Listener discretion is advised. Picture this December
nineteen eighty one, Puertoayarta, Mexico. Flowers are in full bloom
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and you can hear the sound of waves crushing below
the cliffs of the villa's gardens. What Moises Padilla does
not notice the beautiful scenery Moises here. Samuel call for
him from the balcony of the mansion, telling him to
come inside, but Moises ignores him. He is too busy
looking for a rock, a big one, a rock heavy
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enough to bush the head of some oil into a
pulp and kill him.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mal Joannes Momento sipence matarlotamente pince mata.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I felt awful. All I could think about was killing him.
I looked at a rock and thought I'll kicked him
in his knots and break his face with that stone.
But I stopped. I told myself, no, no, no, If
I do that, he'll end up a martyr and I'll
be in jail for the rest of my life, or
be killed in prison by the followers of the Light
of the World.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I imagine the memory of that rock flashed through Moises's
head seventeen years later as he lay completely naked, bruce
and bleeding on to call asphalt in the middle of nowhere.
If Moises had chosen action over mercy back then, he
might have avoided this particular fate. Viciously stabbed over sixty
times and left for dead on the side of a
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deserted road on the outskirts of Wallajara, Mexico, Moyses caught
a glimpse of his attackers. The men held bent on
destroying his life, and one of them. He recognized that
man is what this story is all about. As the
men walked away, Moses felt himself living his body, but
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he would survive, and so would his plan for revenge.
I'm Robert T. Garza, and this is Sacred Scandal, Season two.
La Us del Mundo, Episode two, Left for Dead. Moses
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Padilla grew up in the seventies and eighties Inner Moosa Provincia,
a neighborhood in the Mexican city of Wallajare Inner Moosa Provincia.
All of Moyses's friends, neighbors, teachers, basically everybody belonged to
Lalus del Mundo or l DM for short. Moses was
born into a church family. Mother joined after meeting his mother,
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Maria and Moises's grandmother. Maria's mother had been a member,
serving under the original apostle, Aaron, who founded the church
in the nineteen twenties. We'll hear more about Aron later,
but for now, what you need to know is this.
In the nineteen eighties, LLDM was growing. Samuel Jaquin had
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taken the reins in the nineteen sixties after his father's
Aaron's death, and Samuel had big plans. Under Samuel's leadership,
the church was booming, expanding internationally and consolidating its importance
and clouds in Mexico. Unlike his father, Aaron, Samuel treated
LLM like a corporation, establishing clear hierarchies within the church,
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pushing for its international expansion, and consolidating a strict code
of conduct for members. Life insider Mossa Provincia was structured
around the church, and Moises Padilla's life was no different.
As a boy, he founded and led the church's youth choir.
He attended services three times a day, and in his
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spare time, he collected money for the temple. Unlike any
good believer. Moses, his friends and family revered the Apostles
sa Molhoakin like a god for Moises. Being born into
a church family came with certain privileges. As a kid,
Moses was often invited to someone's house the Casagrande or
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great house, to play with some Moelhuakin's children, or, as
church insiders called them, the royal Princess. Moses felt very
proud to be a part of it all. On one
of those visits, when Moses was sixteen years old, some
well invited Moises to stay for lunch that was considered
a rare blessing. The apostles served a beautiful lobster meal
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and then invited Moises to drive him to his beach
house in Portoayarta, several hours away. This was a true
honor for Moises and his family could not be refused.
To drive from Gualajara to Portoyerta is scenic. Two hundred
miles of lush mountains transport you from one of the
densest cities in Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. But Moises
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did not notice the gorgeous plains or mountains. He was
disturbed by the man next to him. Samuel Juaquin, his apostle,
his leader, a trusted family friend, suddenly put his hand
on Moises's leg and began to move it upwards, and
he did not stop. By the time they arrived at
the beach house, Moises was trembling. He remembers being aroused
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and feeling terribly ashamed. Things only got warse inside the house.
After it was all over, Moses ran outside to the
garden and threw up.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Or yo yovnia.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
All I could do was cry.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Moys says, was upset and tried to comfort him.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah as in Musi and said no, no, there was
a pilt.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
He was very tender. He told me, no, no, you
must not feel bad because today you have learned the
secrets of a servant of God. I asked, what secrets
you have a wife? This is not an act of God,
he says. You must understand that I'm an angel. Angels
do not have sex. We can enjoy a man or
a woman.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Samoltolmois says that what had taken place between them was
not profane, but divine, not rape, but a blessing. And
then he told musays one other very important.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Thing, nulidigas nada to Papa Nia tu sermanus nulisdigas na.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Don't say anything to your dad or your brothers. Don't
tell them anything, because if they leave the church, you
will be responsible for their condemnation.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Back in Wajara, Monses kept the abuse his secret. He
told no one, not his parents or his sisters. The
apostle had warned him that if he talked about what
had happened, he and his family would be damned to hell.
Shortly after his return, his fourteen year old sister Martha
began acting strangely. She started wetting her bed, She stopped showering,
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combing her hair, and washing her clothes.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
One of mister Romanda's Martha me, one.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Of my sisters, tells me that she is leaving home.
She didn't want to tell me why.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Concerned, Mosses pressed Martha for more details. At first, Martha
refused to tell him anything, but little by little the
truth came out, and soon an alliance formed between Muises
and Martha. It was then the brother and sisters started
a lifelong journey putting together the pieces of generations of
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abuse that went far beyond brother and sister. We'll get
to that very soon. What Moyses learned from Martha's confession
was that his sister had a story very similar to his.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Own e Medico Quez Amoeila.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And then she says that Samuel had raped her and
that her mother had taken her when she was only thirteen.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Martha's strange behavior began just after this encounter. Like Mois says,
Martha was sworn to secrecy, threatened with the condemnation of
their entire family to hell if she told. But unlike Moises,
she was given to the apostle willingly by her mother.
And then Martha told, Mois says.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And it turns out that my mother also offered herself
in at the age of thirteen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
His own mother, Maria, had been raped as a girl
by Ron SAME's father, an El d M's founder its
very first Apostle. She had been taken by her mother,
Moises's grandmother. All his life, moys has had heard the rumors.
Rumors of the Apostles had once assault on his own stepsister,
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not yet twelve years old, of erotic costume parties the
handmaid and arranged for Samuel's birthdays. He also remembered the
young pretty girl Samuel surrounded himself with and the older
handmaiden who always seemed to watch them like hawks. Rumors
that the faithful listening obediently to their pastors dismissed as
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the work of evil apostates speaking for Satan. But Moyses
couldn't deny the rumors any more. He was both witness
and evidence. How to move forward with this knowledge, however,
would not be easy. In l D, m accusations are hushed, punished,
and denied from generation to generation. At the church. The
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mere mention of the apostles in proprieties is considered the
gravest of sins, meriting eternal damnation in heaven and a
harsh response from the Church on Earth. Members who leave
the church are exiled and called impure an apostles. It's
been two years since an incident with some will in Portoyata,
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two years of tough, horrifying revelations that hut turned Moyses's
world upside down. He was now eighteen. He began saving money.
He planned to leave the church and his family for good,
but he couldn't stop thinking of his sister Martha, his
new baby sister Miriam. Living would save himself, but not them,
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nor any other believer. He had to tell the truth,
starting with his.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Father innocent momento with look at you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
And at that moment, what I did was to save
some money in case my father did not believe us.
What I did was to prepare everything to rent an
apartment and take my sister with me in case my
father kicked us out of the house, which is the
most common thing that happens in this cult.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Moises braced himself for a confrontation. After a couple of
months of washing cars and tending houses, he was ready
for the worst. Moyses approached his father and told him.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Everything afuntek jo Ablo dees to commit.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Fortunately, when I talked to my father about this, he
listens to me.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Not only did his father believe him, he agreed to
leave the church with his son and young daughters. His
mother and older sister, Magdalena were less understanding. They called
moisays on his father liars and sinners and decided to
stay put by Samuel's side.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
They prefily Glesia nolin Porto.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
She chose the church over everything. She left my baby sister,
and he didn't FaZe her. Miriam was only three years old.
Can you imagine she didn't care that she was choosing
to stay in that church over her three year old daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
For the first time in his life, Moyses was free.
He felt relieved to be out from under the control
of the apostles and the rest of the flock. However,
he was not satisfied with simply walking away.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
He wanted justice daima Nazi in La.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Of course, it was only natural that I'd come up
with a plan of attack as strategy to put him
in jail. I was focused.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
At twenty years old, Moyses started studying law, believing that
this was the way to bring Samoil and LDM down.
His father, Primitivo, a judge, gave him a reality check.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
No, I didn't finish my law degree because of my father,
and with good reason. He would tell me that the
country's laws existed but were rarely enforced.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Primitivo then offered to help his son with his plan.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Lo mimo medisee almost.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
He says to me, let's investigate the families that have left,
the ones they call impure.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So Moises and his father, in order to form a
clear picture of the scope of someone's abuses, reached out
to other families that had already they left the church.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Musimos lat the carculas familias.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
We talked to those families and it was a river
of tears, every one of them relieved the suffering sam
Well had custom.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Together, father and son began building a case against LLEDM,
one that would show the abuses were not exceptional, but
built into the church's operations, crimes that required the church's
institutional oversight and protection to be enacted and covered up. Primitivo.
Tolmis says that they must do this work in secrets
until their case was strong enough, because once they went public,
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his father warned it would not be easy.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Matta, they will kill you.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Ever since the church's earliest days, LDM had carefully cultivated
its earthly power. When Apostle ar Owned founded the church
back in the nineteen twenties, Mexico was governed by the PRI,
a single ruling party that held unchecked power for over
seventy years, basically a dictatorship with little to know governmental
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checks or balances. What the ruling class wanted it got.
LEDM worked willingly with the PRI. When the PRI needed
something like a large number of people to attend rallies
for the campaign work, or a huge base mobilized to
vote one way or another. PRI only had to phone
up the Apostle and say the word, and LEDM would
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quickly deploy its thousands of believers. It was not uncommon
to have one hundred percent of her most provincials votes
go to PRI. This relationship worked both ways. Pr got
to use ledm's base, and LEDM was able to operate
not only undisturbed by government authorities, but openly aided by them.
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For example, when Samuel decided to build a giant temple
in Hermosa Provincia in nineteen eighty one, the plan encountered
no pushback, no red tape, no pesky inspectors, and a
full tax exemption. Add a corrupt political structure to a
massive cult. Following and Yu get l uzel Mundo, an
organization operating almost totally outside the law, yet in plain
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sight uncrackable. As former church insiders, Moyses and his father knew,
it would not be easy to find justice. The pair
spent over five years building their first case. They gathered
testimonial after testimonial of the Apostle's abuses and corruption.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Nopalsindo Juez said Toma Multovo.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
As a judge. My father summoned up all his courage
and political connections and attempted to file a criminal case
against them.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Will Finally, Muses and his father filed acclaim against Samuel
Juaquin for abuse.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
No no longer, but that ultimately fails.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So they went back to the families and survivors, gathered
more evidence, fathered another lawsuit, and another and another. Every
single time, I says, and his father got stuck in
one bureaucratic nightmare after another, bumped from office to office
in a whirlwind of lost papers and misplaced evidence. After
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several fell lawsuits, Moses's father decided to pull some strings.
Perhaps they could not win in Wallajara, so maybe they
should try their luck in Mexico City. They hopped on
a plane to visit an old schoolmate of his dad's,
a high profile politician and tamin AD minister.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Fum in Nocuiso. He at a COI.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
We went to his office, but he wanted nothing to
do with it. It got heated and he ended up
throwing my dad out of his office. He said he
was busy and he had no time for this nonsense.
He told him not to start trouble with religious leaders,
they're untouchable in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
In nineteen ninety four, twelve years after Moyses and his
father left the church, mister Padilla passed away without saying
his children get any justice. Before he died, he shared
something with his son that has to find Moyses's life
ever since.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Dreguerdo and Papa as in.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Siundia, dios toga to puerpo para kessum baso.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I remember my dad telling me, if God calls you
one day to be the vessel that brings justice for
all the children that have been raped, for all elderly
that had their homes taken away, and for all the parents'
outrage over their heritage, you must do it. Don't be afraid,
just do it. Nothing will happen to you.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Moyses knew that to defeat el DM he would need
a better plan. Anonymous testimonials would not be enough. He
teamed up with Fernando Flores, the church's longtime archivist and historian.
Flores helped Mouses find survivors willing to speak out publicly
against l DM, no matter the cost. By the end
of the summer of nineteen ninety seven, the newly formed
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Front was ready.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
El gurupido. The Valiantes has to be on the paramison
as it was a.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Small, brave group of people. In my eyes, they were heroes.
It was a tough time. There was no social media,
and we knew that we were facing a political and
economic monster.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Moises and the other members of the group went on
to file criminal complaints in Mexico City. They knew they
were likely to be rejected or indefinitely archived by the authorities,
but this time they got receipts.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Nonos geria acetarla de nuncia.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
They did not want to accept the complaints, and we
knew they wouldn't. We believed that the best option at
that point was to have the attorney's stamp and signature.
We wanted the time and date stamped right then and
there in his office, and so we played dumb and
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act like we weren't sure if they could do us
the favor. We were ensure they would give us a
receipt acknowledging the complaint, but they gave it to us
as planned.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Their filing went nowhere, but this time Moises and his
group would use Mexico's bureaucratic nightmare to their advantage. With
the documents in hand, they went on newsrooms and national
talk shows publicly denouncing the Apostle and LDM for abuse.
Sam Oil and LDM tried to get in front of
the story, but the damage was inescapable. They went from
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the nile to full bloom panic. Some Oil and his
minions even attempted to buy up all the newspapers covering
the subject in Wallajara and destroy them, but it was pointless.
The story was everywhere more on that after the break
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Moises on the group had chosen to sidestep the inefficient
and corrupt legals system and go straight to the court
of public opinion. After appearing on some of the most
important newscasts in the country like televisas, the Traslanatissia and
SAW the Mexico and the Luni Versal, the group was
overwhelmed with requests for interviews by newspapers, radio stations, and
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TV channels. They could feel the tides changing. Their next
step was a big public action, a hunger strike. In
the winter of nineteen ninety seven, Moises and a group
of ledm's defectors set up camping downtown Mexico City. Write
under what amounts to Mexico's Homeland Security Offices, the offices
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that in the country grant any annual churches a license
to operate on Mexican soil. The Hunger's strike was not easy.
There was no rest at the campsite. Ledm members constantly
harassed them. They threw thrush at the strikers, honked and
shouted at all hours of the night, and even ran
their cars into the tents at the site. Moses had
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to maintain a constant vie vilence. But Moyses knew he
was getting under the Apostle's skin when a lawyer showed
up with a briefcase.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Samuel Joaquin Mando la Luzel Mundo.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Samuel Joaquim sent two of his lawyers from the light
of the world with a four million dollar brivee. They
said that brother Samuel was upset and saddened by what
he had done and the damage he had got to
the church. He sends this money as an apology and
hopes we can put this matter to rest.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
When Moyses opened the briefcase, all he felt was rage.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Korah I was speechless until one of the lawyers told me,
it's a lot of money. Moy says, I'm normally not
a rude or nasty person, but at that moment I
told him to take the damn money and go. I
asked them to do me a huge favor and take
every single one hundred dollar bill and stick it up
his ass.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
A couple weeks later, Samuel's lawyer visited again, this time
with six million dollars. Again Moises refused. Immediately after, Mosas
was invited into Mexico's Homeland Security office for a private
meeting with the Secretary of the Interior.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, secretarial, and that's when the Secretary of the Interior
yelled at me, insulted me, and asked if I had
a visa for the United States. I told him yes.
He told me to go to the United States and
as a favor, I could go in a government plane.
Arriving in a government plane will ensure I wouldn't be searched.
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He said, take your money and get lost. I don't
need you costing me any more problems. Then, with a
straight face, he says, I know you're right, but there
is no room in prison for so many Samolites.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
He's a miss Manocia for Pando mess question.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That same night, I was kidnapped.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That night, who says returned home to Arajara. He was exhausted.
The hunger strike had gone nowhere. He was looking forward
to a couple of nights rest at home before regrouping
and deciding what to do next. That evening, when he
stepped out to buy some groceries, six men jumped him
and shoved him into a car with tinted windows. He
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imagined he would be taken to one of the tunnels
or secret rooms hidden under Ledm's main temple, the one
Samuel had built in the nineteen eighties. But that's not
what happened.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
La. He standoned and through the Losrangos.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
They took me to the farmland around Tonella, and that's
when they tortured me.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
They drove to the outskirts of the city into an
abandoned warehouse and proceeded to beat him furiously, yelling at
him that he should have kept his mouth shut, And
then several of them took out their.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Knives, and just as they're stabbing me, I'm freed and
Sante Sally. It was like an out of body experience.
I can look down at the six men about to torture.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Me, Moises says, he was able to clearly see his
attackers and that he knew they were federal police officers.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
We have been since Cio pourque la luzel Mounto.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Simply put, the light of the world was connected and
pulled favors. Everyone knew that Samuela and his children had
bodyguards who were paid for by the government.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Most of the men he couldn't place, but there was
one face he did recognize, a man Moisees had known
all his life. He had often played with him as
a little boy.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Sally or mean Sante Sally.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
My spiritual body comes out, or my consciousness comes out.
I can look at the six who were going to
torture me. The truth is believe me didn't care. I
knew that I was going to a better place.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But at that moment he was oblivious, floating between life
and death on experience.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It was a beautiful experience. The moment thinking energy meets
your quantum energy. It's an energy most humans are unaware of.
You exist, what you do, not have a body, You see,
but have no eyes. You think, but you don't have
a brain. It's something unique that breaks the loss of physics, chemistry,
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everything really.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
After stabbing Moys says over sixty times, his neck, his
back and torso. The man carried his limb body back
to the van, drove a couple of miles and left
him for dead at the side of the road. What moisays,
didn't I he just spent three or four hours in
his beautiful out of body experience until he woke up
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naked and kicked.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Him blood dregreso a miguerpo. He medesa marro comens.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I woke up and untied myself. I started walking towards
the road and eventually began crossing the Tonala Highway. I
stopped on the yellow line and sea lights coming towards me,
standing there naked, when hand covering my genitals and the
other hand waving them to stop. Aji jo THEWN testimonial.
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They took me to a local police station. I didn't
think i'd get another chance, so I gave a brief statement,
something that they could have on record.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Afterwards, Monses is taken to a local hospital. It's done
just a couple hours after his attack. Word gets out
and his friends and family arrive, and so does Walajara's
district attorney, el Era.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
He wasn't just a district attorney, but also a member
of the Light of the World and even had family
members that were part of the choir.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The district attorney cured Moyses's friends and family out of
the room. Moyses was sure he had come to finish
the job. Instead, he was offered another deal Meli.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He asked me, how much will it take to shut
you up? You're a thorn at my side, you son
of a bitch. Just give me a number that will
shut you up and make you disappear.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Of course, Moyses refused, but it was clear his life
was in serious danger. He wanted to leave the hospital
right then and there, but couldn't. He stayed at the
clinic for almost a week, drifting in and out of consciousness.
Shortly before he was discharged, the district attorney paid him
another visit. Moses claimed his attackers were federalis, so in
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order to prove him wrong, the district attorney brought a
set of headshots for Moises to identify.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
For those, the district attorney came back with two albums
full of tiny pictures. I looked through each one carefully
and picked one guy out, then another, And as I
kept looking through, I pointed at six photos, six people
I recognized in my kidnapping. Was it a coincidence that
the same six judicial police officers had asked for the
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day off on the day of my attack. Yeah, And
even after picking them up, there was never an investigation.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The men who attacked moys says, were never prosecuted for
their crime, not even the one man whom moy says
is sure he so committed, the one he knew intimately
his childhood playmate, Samuel's own son, Nason ja King Garcia.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I think Nason ordered the attack as a gift to Samuel.
It was almost February fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
February fourteenth is Amael's birthday, and this.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Was his way of owing his dad that he deserved
to lead.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Samo Jakin was never punished for his crimes. He died
peacefully in Walahara in December twenty fourteen, surrounded by his wife,
his children, attended by his many young handmaidens. Sixteen years
after Moses identified him as one of the men who
stabbed him less than a week after Samuel Hawkins's death,
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Nasan Juakin Garcia fulfilled his destiny, taking his rightful place
as the present day leader of La uzel Mundo. Musespadeia
spent forty days recovering and fled to the United States.
In the year two thousand. He was granted asylum and
given a new identity by the FBI, but his fight
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is not over.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Years.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I told myself I needed to go to the United
States because that's where the church truly makes their money.
That's where the immigrants are, where they earned dollars, and
more importantly, that's the country where I can leave a
permanent mark on the record. They'll forever be known as criminals.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
On our next episode, we learn how ledm became untouchable
and how the founder Aroun convinced thousands of people he
was second only to God. I think that the problem
is here is the sick mind.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
And I believe that Aaron Elsebio essentially was a sick person,
and he was a pedophile, and that he was a
man from the army.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
He was a man of power. Sacred scandala uzel Mundo
is a production of Exile Content Studio in partnership with
Iheartsmichael Tura podcast Network, and is hosted by me Robert
ta Garza, produced by Savin Jensen with the help of Estella,
I amt Reynald Gutierrez and an Isabel Octavio. Written by
(30:58):
myself and Monissa Henri's research by Roberta Garza. Additional reporting
by Florenzia monsals Geralcia. Fact checking for this episode by
Sean Merchant. Engineering by Uga Mendoza. Sound designed by Patrick Quiniones.
Original music by Patrick Hart, Edited by Vira Alsop and
(31:18):
Rose Reed. Executive producers are Rose Reed, Carmen gratterol Isaac Lee,
and Nando Villa. Daniel Bautista overseas audio at Exilcnton Studio.
Our executive producers at iHeart Argistel Vances and Arlen Santana.
Sacred Scandal was created by Menalie Bartley and Paula Varos.
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Special thanks to voice actor Anjaldeza, who contributed to this
episode and to Sonic Union. For more podcasts, go to
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