A Santa Ana pastor has been sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting three young girls.
Carlos Ramirez Valdez, 61, was convicted of 14 counts related to the child sexual abuse cases that happened while he was the leader of Iglesia De Dios Ebenezer Church between 2012 and 2019. He became a pastor at another Santa Ana church after the assaults.
unadulterated rage
Everyone go watch the Philip Seymour Hoffman & Meryl Streep movie Doubt to see just how systemically fucked organized religion is.
While I agree, it isn’t just religion. Seems any organization that gets past a certain size goes the route of protecting its “leadership” over others. But religion is a great example of it.
Also one of the oldest examples I know of, it was one of the many complaints that were part of Martin Luther’s thesis. That’s just the most concrete one I know about, there are less solid ones going back as early as the 700s.
Though it doesn’t say the church knew anything about the assualt. Could be ragebait since we know churches have shuffled people to protect them before.