By LeoNardo Blair, Senior Reporter
A venerable teacher at the Elim Gaithersburg church in Derwood, Maryland, is facing up to 55 years in penal advanced after pleading guilty to sexually molesting four ladies at the church. Two of the victims, according to charging documents, had been abused in a classroom as other students prayed.
The venerable teacher, Ervin Alfaro-Lopez, 34, of Germantown, pleaded guilty to one depend of intercourse abuse of a minor and three counts of third-diploma intercourse offense, the 1st viscount montgomery of alamein County Explain’s Licensed educated’s Space of job in Maryland announced in a press free up.
The victims had been between the ages of 6 and 12 when they had been abused between 2016 and 2018.
Charging documents cited by Bethesda talked about police began an investigation into Alfaro-Lopez after they received a story in Can also 2023 that he had sexually abused a baby. The then 14-year-outmoded survivor told investigators that Alfaro-Lopez sexually abused her when she was 6 or 7.
The teenager told police that Alfaro-Lopez touched her inappropriately throughout a dreary night church carrier whereas she sat on his lap and other kids watched a film.
Before sharing what Alfaro-Lopez had performed to her, the teenager talked about she shared it along with her handiest friend who “reported Alfaro-Lopez did worse issues to her throughout the the same time length,” according to court docket documents.
It was noted that the night earlier than the teenager told her fogeys what Alfaro-Lopez had performed to her, he allegedly told her father, who served as a pastor at the church, that he was guilty of abusing her handiest friend too.
The teenager’s mother told police in an interview that she “came upon about the alleged abuse of [her daughter] by Alfaro Lopez” in unhurried summer 2023. She confirmed that Alfaro-Lopez told her husband that he had sexually abused their daughter’s handiest friend.
Police later identified two sisters who alleged that Alfaro-Lopez had also touched them inappropriately over and below their clothes throughout a class, whereas other students had been praying with their eyes closed. Their father reportedly told police that Alfaro-Lopez had abused his daughters and the church had disciplined him for his behavior.
“[The victims’] father told that his daughters had previously told him of the abuse, that he had long previous to the church Pastor and told him what had took pickle, and that the incident had been handled internal the church,” the charging documents talked about.
One of many sisters talked about that Alfaro Lopez “bought in anguish” after he was reported and he was banned from teaching. She also noted that Alfaro-Lopez was deported, but he in the end returned to the church.
He was arrested on March 11, 2024, following an investigation by the 1st viscount montgomery of alamein County Police Particular Victims Investigations Division and is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 28.
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