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KiNGDOM of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader Apollo Quiboloy who was accused of sexually abusing his followers on Wednesday attended a Senate hearing on the alleged crimes committed within the organization, especially on abuses against women, including minors.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quiboloy, who appeared before the panel for the first time, repeatedly denied the allegations of the former KOJC members of sexual exploitation and other abuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWala pong katotohanan \u2018yung kanilang mga sinabi. Kung meron po silang charges na kriminal laban sa akin, malaya po silang mag-file ng kaso at doon ko haharapin at sasagutin sa tamang forum sa korte ng ating lupa tulad ng kinakaharap namin ngayon,\u201d <\/strong>Quiboloy told the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality conducting probe on alleged abuses within the KOJC.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the Senate inquiry, the 74 self appointed son of God was accused of grooming children into sex, forcing a teenager to stop going to school to sell food to fund his church, and obliging workers to flout government rules while working long hours to construct a building for his media firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Teresita Valdehueza, <\/strong>a former head of KOJC\u2019s logistics department, <\/strong>told senators she left the church after 19 years of membership in 1999 due to the alleged abuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Sleeping beside a man I believed to be chosen by God was for me then a great privilege, an opportunity for a sinner like me,” Valdehueza said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “But what followed shattered my sense of faith and trust. Without a word, after turning off the light, he embraced me, undressed me, and violated me with his lustful act,” she narrated.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to her, she was forced into solitude and mandated to fast for seven months as “punishment for her sins.”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another former KOJC member, Yulya Voronina, a Ukranian, also accused Quiboloy of coercing her to have sex with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “If you say I do not want, he will say you did not overcome your flesh. If you will not obey, you will go to hell,” Voronina <\/strong> told the Senate hearing through a video link from Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She said the KOJC officials always used the Bible as an instrument to convince them to have sex with their leader.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Voronina managed to leave eventually and returned to Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has discovered in its investigations that Quiboloy was trying to emulate the biblical story of King Solomon who had 700 wives and 300 concubines, a police official said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Davao City Police Office Director Col. Hansel Marantan said this was based on the narrative of Quiboloy’s former inner pastorals who listened to his preaching.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Believed to have victimized 200 women already, currently, PNP identified 68 female personalities, of different ages, who were victims of Quiboloy’s sexual exploitation,” Marantan told the panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The KOJC leader, he claimed, engaged in strict fellowship with the inner pastorals to brainwash them that what he was doing was legal.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Based on their investigation, Marantan said Quiboloy exploited his victims after they were groomed and ready.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said Quiboloy also capitalized on the existence of the “Angels of Death” to sow fear among his followers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Victimization continued repeatedly through the years and by generation,” Marantan told the panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quiboloy was arrested last month after thousands of police searched his sprawling compound in Davao City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KiNGDOM of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader Apollo Quiboloy who was accused of sexually abusing his followers on Wednesday attended a Senate hearing on the alleged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9509,"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\/9508"}],"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=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9512,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions\/9512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}