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PASTOR Apollo Quiboloy on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges filed against him and four co-accused in separate court arraignments in Pasig City and Quezon City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quiboloy, leader of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KoJC) religious group, and his co-accused Jackielyn Roy, Cresente Canada, Paulene Canada, Ingrid Canada and Sylvia Cemane, were first brought to a regional trial court in Pasig City to be arraigned in a human trafficking case.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Later in the day, they also pleaded not guilty via videoconference before a Quezon City court in a non-bailable case of child sexual abuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Quiboloy\u2019s lawyer Israelito Torreon, his client entered a not guilty plea because he’s innocent of the charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Philippine National Police (PNP) said that five more women have come forward to accuse Quiboloy of rape.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 74-year-old pastor who is facing graft charges in the country and the United States, including sex trafficking, money laundering and child abuse , was arrested on Sunday after a week-long search of his church\u2019s sprawling 74-acre compound in Davao City by more than 2,000 police officers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, the PNP said Quiboloy asked the <\/strong>court for a hospital arrest in Davao City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cQuiboloy\u2019s lawyers also made a motion that Quiboloy and Ingrid Canada be transferred to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Davao because, accordingly, they have existing medical conditions and are having difficulty in the custodial facility,\u201d Fajardo said during a press briefing.<\/p>\n Quiboloy and his cohorts are currently detained at the PNP Custodial Center at Camp Rafael Crame, Quezon City.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PASTOR Apollo Quiboloy on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges filed against him and four co-accused in separate court arraignments in Pasig City and Quezon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said Quiboloy\u2019s camp filed a motion before the Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 159 for the
hospital arrest of the religious leader as well as one of his co-accused, Ingrid Canada.<\/p>\n