Of all the major, American news agencies that covered the story, CBS and the Spanish version of CNN were the only ones to cover the story that Naason Joaquin Garcia, a Mexican national, admitted to multiple child sex crimes against American children while in this country.
Of those two, CNN published 10 sentences in their story, and CNN Espanol published 11. Each publication only published one story with no follow-ups. And, as you can hear…
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The two-minute broadcast of CNN Espanol’s story isn’t going to do much good for the majority of people in America who do not speak Spanish. Rest assured that I will not only speak in plain English about how horrific this man’s assaults truly are, and I’ll be describing that case in a helluva lot more than 10 sentences.
Now, for full disclosure, Fox LA also covered the story – but not the main Fox masthead network, but their Los Angeles affiliate, where this trial took place. It’s not a huge shock that Fox covered it, given that Fox is generally not afraid of stories like these for the same reasons as NPR or CNN. But keep something very important in mind: while the left-leaning media is not covering this story because it doesn’t support a Woke agenda, the right-leaning media isn’t covering it because it admits of huge, glaring fault lines in the foundation of conservative America.
Even in the case where the Fox affiliate covered the story, however, Fox 11 Oakland only released a 27-second broadcast.
The story was also covered by other agencies in the aftermath of the case, including stories searchable in the Washington Examiner, NBC affiliates, ABC affiliates, the AP News and a few others. But news like this in a different context – for instance, outside of a religious organization – would be expected to take up hours of screen time on so many major broadcasts that the pattern is clear.
Now, this story was covered far and wide in Latin American countries, especially those loyal to man who broke the hearts of millions of people when they found out what he did to the children in his congregation.
Did you hear that last word there, “congregation?” That’s right, Garcia was a priest. Now, I dislike that grown men raping young boys and girls has become almost synomymous with the Catholic church – which, of course hails itself as a safe space for them. But then again, I hate that child rape is perpetrated at all – let alone in a seemingly organized fashion. And, trust me, there’s no better example than this one to prove that theory, as I’ll get into in just a minute.
Nevertheless, I don’t have to point out that it’s widely understood that the rampant pedophilia born of Catholic priests has not only been hidden, but also, when they do get caught, they just get moved around. Or in rare cases, they get a legal slap on the wrist, if any jail time at all. But those punishments are reserved for only the worst of the worst of these cases.
But this is no normal case of child sex crimes. This man not only admitted to sexually enslaving and violating children. He also happens to be the leader of a megachurch. And I’m not talking about Jimmy Swaggart-, Jerry Falwell-type of megachurch. They were big, but I’m talking about something much bigger.
I’m talking about a Catholic empire, three generations deep, started by Garcia’s grandfather, and followed by hundreds of millions of devotees around the world – many of whom make pilgrimages to see this man speak.
We really don’t have enormous religious figures in America like they do in other parts of the world. But this is the relative equivalent of the Dalai Lama coming out and admitting to rapinbg Buddhist children; or a major archbishop in the Vatican admitting to these crimes in front of all of Catholic Europe. This is by no means a small figurehead being outed to a marginal community.
This is a world-famous leader entrusted with the safety of thousands of children, doing the absolute worst thing to those children that someone can imagine.
To try and put it into the national context, it would be like, if the leader for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was as well known as President Biden, and then admitting that they’d raped children for years. And then, of course, only two mainstream media agencies covered his trial. That’s the closest representation I can think of to describe just how monumental this case would be if it was taken seriously by the Establishment Media.
This is a story of a foreign national who came into America, enslaved and orally raped children for years.
But here’s the thing: that’s actually not even the worst part.
The worst part is that he was not alone. Not alone in the sexual acts. And not alone in organizing them.
I can’t find much information about the allegation that he and his father were exploiting children in the church before Garcia came to the States. But what is available here is striking.
Along the timeline of his conviction, it’s been a rocky road of charges being filed, thrown out, refiled and dismissed before a judge accepted his plea deal in June of this year. When Garcia was originally arrested he was charged with three dozen felony counts.
Two women working for Garcia, Susana Medina Oaxaca and Alondra Oaxaca, were also charged with dozens of counts. Collectively, they ranged from forcing children to make pornography, distributing child pornography and child sex trafficking – all in addition to the forcible sex acts.
In La Luz Del Mundo church, Garcia was known as The Apostle – alluding to an ability to speak directly to the Creator.
In the indictment, the allegations claimed that, in one instance, Ocampo forced a group of young girls to take off their clothes and touch each other in a pose for a photo she would take for Garcia. When the girls complained, they were told that “if they went against any desires or wishes of ’the Apostle′ … that they were going against [God himself]”
This is one of the scariest things about organized religion. It creates a mythology so deeply believed, and it’s so easily abused to the point of threatening children with eternal damnation to get them to submit to sexual exploitation.
When Garcia was first arrested in June of 2019, he was released on a $50M bond. The two women also charged at that time had $25M bonds, respectively.
At that time, the megachurch’s official Twitter account decried the allegations as unfounded, stating, “Our confidence in him is not compromised and we are fully aware of his integrity, actions, and work.”
Other tweets are alleged to include that he was, “unable to receive a fair trial and evidence of the case was originally due to a complaint by five victims.”
The statements went on to include that the evidence was “repressed and withheld.”
Since his admission and subsequent conviction of the crimes, the tweets have been taken down.
In the end, after three years and dozens of filings, Garcia was convicted on three counts of child sex related crimes. The two women
He used God’s wrath to coerce his victims to comply with his sexual deviance
In a common thread among religious institutions across the globe and throughout history, devotees are threatened with their existence in the afterlife if they don’t comply with the current life of abuse by their religious captors.
These are the most despicable kinds of humans there are. And no one in the major American media networks wants anyone to know about it. This should drum up more than a few questions.
Ask those questions, my friends. Because unless or until we start having these conversations, this activity is going to continue. And your children just might be next.