CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Wave
By Wave Wire Services
NORWALK — An Oct. 16 arraignment on sexual assault charges is scheduled for an associate pastor of Las Buenas Nuevas Church here, who is suspected of preying on undocumented women parishioners.
Jorge Juan Castro, 54, of Norwalk, is jailed in lieu of $2 million bail while awaiting arraignment in Norwalk Superior Court on a six-count complaint stemming from alleged sexual assaults on two woman who attended services at his church.
Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department — who arrested Castro at his home Sept. 13 — believe there are additional victims.
A sheriff’s statement says “numerous female parishioners” were allegedly sexually abused, and “many of the victims are Spanish-speaking undocumented immigrants.”
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