By LeoNardo Blair, Senior Reporter
Editors’ display: This text comprises graphic descriptions of teen sexual abuse.
A Long Island pastor who advised investigators that he couldn’t give up himself from abusing children and has a penchant for preying on youth dilapidated 11 and 15, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a kid in federal court in Central Islip Tuesday. He’s anticipated to exhaust as a minimum 15 years in penal advanced.
Pastor Jose Saez Jr., 29, of Iglesia Cristiana Alumbrando El Camino (Lights The Capacity Christian Church) became arrested and charged with producing youngster pornography in 2023 after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided his Brentwood dwelling and recovered more than 20 videos of a 16-one year-archaic boy that the pastor had shared with others.
“The defendant’s sexual exploitation of minors, both in particular person and on-line, is horrific, and he now faces as a minimum 15 years in penal advanced for his unspeakable crimes,” United States Attorney John J. Durham said in a free up from the U.S. Attorney’s Space of job for the Jap District of Unusual York. “That he held a location of trust and responsibility as a pastor of a neighborhood church makes his behavior draw more reprehensible. Holding weak children from predators tackle this defendant will constantly be a precedence of this Space of job.”
Per court documents reviewed by The Christian Post, Saez allegedly advised investigators that he became mindful that the teenage boy, who he met on the messaging app known as Telegram, became a high college student.
Yet the married father of three children, who discover been dilapidated 1, 3 and 5 at the time of his arrest, deliberately persuaded the minor to execute sexually explicit photos and videos of himself and share them with him.
In an October 2023 letter to U.S. Magistrate Resolve Anne Y. Shields, Assistant U.S. Attorney Worth E. Misorek argued that Saez became a chance to the team as he shared proof of Saez admitting to preying on the kids of his “web page visitors and household,” and finding victims at church. He furthermore shared how Saez groomed the 16-one year-archaic boy, is known as John Doe.
“In August of 2023, the defendant engaged John Doe in an instantaneous dialog on Telegram. The defendant groomed John Doe with flattery and step by step improved to asking him for nude pictures of himself. John Doe repeatedly made references that he became 16 years archaic — a minor. On the replacement hand, the defendant eventually convinced John Doe to send a video of himself [performing sexually explicit acts],” Misorek favorite. “The defendant encouraged John Doe, asserting in sum and substance, ‘Ship me a listing of your face, tease me, let me witness you in the replicate, need more pics, the entrance too, I desire to witness your physique, take it out . . . your d—.”
That very same month, Saez admitted to an undercover agent that he had sexually abused an youngster and revealed how he focused his youthful victims at his church.
“In August of 2023, the defendant had on-line conversations with the UC. Within the route of these conversations, the defendant said, amongst other issues, that he had conducted oral intercourse on an youngster and ejaculated on the youngster, that his ‘candy place’ for molesting children became children between the ages of 11 and 15 and that he became ready to receive his youthful victims at ‘church,’” Misorek wrote.
Investigators reviewed some 12,000 videos, 400,000 pictures and 6,800 chats recovered from gadgets owned by Saez. In a single dialog, when requested if he became nervous about getting changed into down by a minor, he answered, “Getting changed into down implies I’m giving them a desire[.]”
Despite the reality that investigators did no longer enhance any pictures of the pastor with infants, he said in a single chat, “I f—— about a littles.”
Within the route of questioning with officers, Saez, who would be sentenced to a most of 30 years in penal advanced for his crime, admitted that children are never valid with him
“Finally, at some stage for the period of the interview, while discussing introduction, distribution and possession of teen pornography, the defendant said, ‘I’m sorry that I will’t give up,’” Misorek wrote. “Particularly, the defendant furthermore said, ‘I advised [a third-party who I reside with] never to leave me by myself with the kids.’”
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