Police within the Philippines say televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ chief Apollo Quiboloy, who has pleaded not responsible to human trafficking and the sexual abuse of kids, may need sexually abused some 200 ladies as he confronted a few of his accusers in that nation’s senate on Wednesday.
Davao Metropolis Philippines Nationwide Police Chief Hansel Marantan made the revelation throughout a listening to of the Committee on Girls, Kids, Household Relations, and Gender Equality on Wednesday, Rappler reported.
“[Quiboloy] is believed to have victimized around 200 women,” Marantan stated. “Currently, the PNP identified 68 female personalities, of different ages, who were victims of Quiboloy’s sexual exploitation.”
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Teresita Valdehueza, a founding member Quiboloy’s Kingdom of Jesus Christ, who stated she was simply 17 within the Eighties when she joined the church, recounted particulars of alleged sexual and bodily abuse on the church, ABS-CBN Information reported.
“At the age of 17, I became a member of the church led by this man, Apollo C. Quiboloy, in 1980. … In 1988, I made the difficult decision to dedicate my life to his ministry. … This choice meant leaving behind my family, my career, and the person I once was,” Valdehueza recalled. “Over time, I gained the trust and became a respected worker within the ministry.”
She stated she was happy together with her work on the church till 1993 when she alleges Quiboloy started sexually abusing her.
“He explained that God had revealed to him that I was to partake in God’s life through him by surrendering my body, soul, and spirit,” she stated.
When she lastly discovered the braveness to protest the abuse, she was shortly promoted to a nationwide position within the ministry, she added. However by the late Nineties, the ministry leaders started to activate her.
Valdehueza stated she was compelled to do two units of “dry fasting,” which she believes had been a type of “punishment.”
“It was very much a form of punishment but it was disguised as spiritual discipline. … [But] we would always consider it as our sanctification because we were always made to believe that we were sinners and we do accept that we are sinners, so we had to go through fasting,” she defined.
Quiboloy, 74, who surrendered to authorities in early September after a contentious two-week standoff with native police, has continued to disclaim the allegations.
“There is no truth to what they are saying. If they have a criminal complaint against me, they are free to file it, and I will face it in the proper forum, in the court of our land, just as we are doing now,” the megachurch chief stated.
Throughout the listening to, Quiboloy denied allegations of sexual abuse by feminine employees often called “pastorals.”
These ladies had been allegedly tasked with performing menial duties and pressured into what they name “body sacrifices.” Additionally it is alleged that a number of the ladies requested to carry out “body sacrifices” had been minors.
Quiboloy additionally dismissed allegations that he managed a personal armed group often called “angels of death” which former members declare carried out murders within the pastor’s title.
Quiboloy is a longtime buddy of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. He claims to have 4 million tithing followers within the Philippines, 2 million extra abroad, and reaches 600 million viewers worldwide via his TV station.
In a 2010 interview with ABC Information, Quiboloy stated each member of his kingdom shared his wealth and was welcome to remain at his mansion. He additional famous that God revealed to him in 1983 that he ought to personal a jet and declared that everybody ought to settle for what they get from God in life, even whether it is poverty.
“If it is not God’s will for me to have these things I have, you can take it away,” he stated. “It is God’s will that we follow. … If he wanted me to live like a rat, if he wanted me to live in wealth or in poverty, it does not matter to me. Put me there, and I’ll be happy as long as it’s God’s will.”
After his arrest final month, The Philippines Division stated Quiboloy, who is needed within the U.S. on comparable prices, must face the home authorized system earlier than any extradition request by the U.S. is granted.
The 2021 prices within the U.S. towards Quiboloy are an growth of allegations made in early 2020 towards three Los Angeles-based directors of the church. The allegations title 9 defendants, together with Quiboloy, and his two directors, Teresita Tolibas Dandan, also referred to as “Tessie,” and “Sis Ting,” now 62, of Davao Metropolis.
The “international administrator” was one of many high overseers of KOJC and the Glendale-based Kids’s Pleasure Basis within the U.S.
The opposite high administrator, Felina Salinas, also referred to as “Sis Eng Eng,” 53, of Kapolei, Hawaii, allegedly collected and secured passports, and different paperwork from KOJC employees in Hawaii. She additionally allegedly directed funds solicited from church members to church officers within the Philippines.
Quiboloy, Dandan, and Salinas are charged in rely considered one of a superseding indictment, which alleges the intercourse trafficking conspiracy. Every of them is charged in at the very least three of 5 substantive counts of intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud and coercion.
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