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15 rescued from church cult after exorcism injuries

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Posted 15/01/2020

At least 15 people detained by the La Luz del Mundo (Light of the World) Church were rescued by police in El Terrón de Santa Catalina, in the Ngäbe Buglé region following revelations of an exorcism ceremony which led to the hospitalization of four people.

Ten people were arrested during the rescue operation/

Earlier TVN  reported that at least 20 people were held by pastors and members of the so-called church

Residents of the community mobilized in  Río Luis in the Santa Fe district in  Veraguas province, where they denounced that La Luz del Mundo Church had people held

A father said that his wife and four children were being held.

Meanwhile, a child under 15 years of age was able to escape and showed back injuries.

The case of this Church in the region was recently known because the Valdez brothers were taken to the Luis "Chicho" Fabrega Hospital in Santiago de Veraguas, injured in a religious cult of exorcism.

 

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Grave with bodies of 6 children, one adult at Veraguas exorcism site

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Posted 15/01/2020

A grave  containing four bodies was unearthed just hours after 15 people were freed from the clutches of a religious sect, that carried out an exorcism ritual that put three people in hospital in Veraguas   and led to the arrest of 10 members of “The new Light of God” cult

National Police, Director  Alexis Muñoz, confirmed on Wednesday, January 15, that a grave was found in the community of El Terrón, corregimiento of Santa Catalina, in the Ngäbe Buglé region, after the arrest of members of the sect that was denounced for mistreating and depriving at least 15 people of freedom.

Muñoz said that when police officers arrived in the area, information was received about the existence of a grave and they confirmed that it was true.

"Immediately this was put in the hands of the Public Ministry and the criminal technicians," said Muñoz.

He said  that all members of the sect who were arrested and those affected are indigenous

 

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Exorcism victims would not accept Christ

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Posted 16/01/2020

The alleged religious cult killers of seven people during exorcism rites including children aged one to nine whose tortured bodies were found in a grave in El Terrón will appear in court on Friday, January 17.

The location of the bodies was revealed, after a complaint of abuse against a sect that performed religious rites and practiced exorcisms of indigenous people of the Ngäbe Buglé ethnic group.

The murders would have been carried out at night between Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 of this month, say police reports. The victims were beaten with bibles and planks, tortured and strangled according to witnesses.

A witness told TVN News  that the mother of a murdered girl told him that she did not oppose the killings because the “shepherds”  had confirmed, "that the child had not accepted Christ." The deaths and abuses would have occurred within a wide hut the “church” of the sect, according to TVN News images.

Air and Sea personnel  (Senan) rescued 14 victims, including seven minors and two pregnant women who were taken by helicopter to a hospital in Santiago.

Six people who were identified as victims of torture were part of the family of a second corporal of the National Polic,e Ananías González, according to an official note from the Ministry of Securit

The warning of the existence of the sect was given after three brothers managed to escape and reach a health center in Veraguas before being hospitalized with severe injuries

he president of the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples of Panama (COONAPIP), Marco Guerra, expressed dismay and sadness over the events in the Ngäbe Buglé Comarca.

"One of the problems that we have in the region is the little rigor that exists when it comes to ensuring the safety of the town when all kinds of religious groups and NGOs arrive that nobody investigates or filters the information about their true intentions and interests, affecting a people as vulnerable as ours, "he said..

 

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"Son of Adam and Eve" in macabre Panama murder of 7 ritual

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Posted 18/01/2020

Obniel González Viro, the new “Messiah and the third son of  Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel., was the figurehead of the Church of Dod cult in the El Terrón in the Ngäbe-Buglé region of Panama), that tortured murdered  7 people including a pregnant mother, and her five children in an exorcism rite.

Viro known as “Zet” and “Pastor”  Mario González Blanco, were the leaders of the sect that proclaimed: “repent or die!”

The name "Zet, is a deity of brute force, of the tumultuous, the unstoppable. Lord of chaos, the god of drought and desert in Egyptian mythology.

On Friday, January 17  in Changuinolac charged  with homicide, femicide and deprivation of liberty

During the hearing details of the events of Saturday 11 and early Sunday. Bellín Valdés Flores, 33, was taken from her home to worship.

On Saturday night the first sacrifice was a goat whose tongue was cut off  but "Zet" claimed that it was not enough.

Bellin and her five children were circled by the members of the sect. as  Jehovah "revealed," to "Zet" that the woman was a "sorceress" and had to die.

The woman six months pregnant was beaten wildly in the abdomen with sticks, machetes, and Bibles until she was killed. Her five children witnessed the performance of the pastor and his followers before they were killed.

One daughter of Bellin WQA among the group of 15 people rescued by the Police.

The judge ordered police vigilance in the Terrón area and psychiatric attention given to those involved.

Further charges could be made for vaginal sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl who was in the group of 15 survivors, who were rescued by the National Police.

 

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OPINION: Bloody Climax to State Abandonment

Posted 19/01/2020

The Panamanian soil has been stained with the blood of a tragedy: the horror of El Terrón, which manifests the violence unleashed in the absence of State action.

What has happened to the billions of dollars spent on the Opportunities Network, the Universal Scholarship, and other grants? In the case of the region, the killing adds to a legacy of death of children due to "natural causes" of whooping cough and tuberculosis, because they were not vaccinated;  In addition, there is the loss of lives of teachers and nurses crossing flooded rivers and a rosary of social indicators of hunger, disease and illiteracy.

Religious fanaticism could cause deaths in the region thanks to the prolonged abandonment of the State. The tragedies Panamanians endure are not acts of God, but human decisions or omissions that in a short or long chain of events, the outcome of the shedding of the blood of many innocents.

Although the effective response of the authorities and other agents of to such a tragedy must be recognized, perhaps the ceilings of lost hope or the new schools that were never built would have changed the history of this abandoned and excluded community for decades

-LA PRENSA, Jan. 19.

 


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No cells of a religious cult that  killed

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Posted 10/02/2020

While nine members of a religious sect await trial for the murder of a pregnant woman, her five children and a 17-year-old girl of the existence of cells of a religious sect in El Terrón, in the Ngäbe Buglé region prosecutors in Bocas de Toro have ruled out, for now, the existence of cells of the cult.

Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Imelcf)  are at the crime scene and Public Ministry sources reported that the prosecution continues to interview people in the community of El Terrón, but so far there are no elements to suggest that there are other people involved.

There have also been no indications indicating that there are surrounding areas where similar acts were taking place

At the start of the investigations, prosecutors said that at the time of their arrest, the alleged perpetrators held 15 other people who suffered injuries from ritual practices.

 

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Religious sect killers get 50 years to repent

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Posted 03/12/2021

Seven people responsible for the “Church of  God” killings in the El Terrón community in the Ngäbe Buglé region in January 2020 were sentenced to 50 years in prison, related to torture carried out by the religious sect.

The crimes for which they were sentenced are homicide, femicide, and deprivation of liberty, to the detriment of 7 people.

Prosecutors managed to support the theory of the case of the Public Ministry before a court of conscience that, on Saturday, November 20, 2021, after six days of oral trial,  issued a unanimous judgment with a condemnatory sense.

 According to the investigation of the Public Ministry, the people who were sentenced participated in a religious cult where they murdered the victims with blows inflicted with machetes, Bibles, and sticks.

During the final argument, the prosecutor Rodríguez indicated that they were victims, mostly minors who died cruelly at the hands of these people who, abrogating an act in the name of God, committed the crimes.

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Cult arrests revive memories of 2020 massacre

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Posted 14/04/2023

In two days, the National Naval Air Service (Senan) has evacuated a total of 32 people possible victims of a religious sect that operates on Peterson Island, Kusapín district, in the Ngäbe-Buglé region, and apprehended a total of three linked to the religious sect, for the crime against life and personal integrity, of five people.

The action occurred after three minors and two women, confined in a hospital, presented multiple injuries from blows and burns.

 Investigations indicate that the blows and burns are the product of a ritual in which 50 people participated. The Homicide and Femicide Section of the Bocas del Toro Prosecutor's Office moved to the area to establish responsibilities.

On Friday Senan and the Prosecutor's Office, took 19 people for evaluation by the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences. The three apprehended will appear before the Court of Guarantees for imputation of charges and application of precautionary measures.

The Superior Prosecutor of Bocas del Toro, Julio Vergara, does not rule out further arrests.

The people, all indigenous, were found in the Bukori community, belonging to the Bahia Azul corregimiento, about 45 minutes away from Chiriquí Grande, in Bocas del Toro.

 Alto Terrón massacre
In January 2020, the inhabitants of Alto Terrón, Santa Catalina corregimiento, also in the Ngäbe-Buglé,  security forces intervened in an alleged sect, after receiving several complaints of the death of a woman and six minors.

Security forces, located the bodies of the victims, in a common grave. At that time, the National Police and the Senan rescued 15 members of the sect who had been handcuffed and held against their will. They apprehended another 10 suspects, who were prosecuted by the Veraguas prosecutor's office.

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Fifth arrest in cult injuries probe

Posted 15/04/2023

The guarantees hearing taking place on Saturday, April 15, against four people allegedly linked to a sect and who are accused of allegedly attacking various people, was resumed and will be joined by a fifth suspect who was arrested earlier in the day.

The Bocas del Toro Regional Prosecutor's Office, through the Homicide and Femicide Specialized Section, apprehended the people, after the events recorded on Peterson Island, Kusapín, in the Ngäbe Buglé region.

The victims turned out to be three minors and two women, who had multiple injuries from blows and burns and who are being held in a hospital.

Staff from the Bocas del Toro Prosecutor's Office went to the scene after initiating an ex officio investigation after the injured were admitted to the Chiriquí Grande hospital on Thursday afternoon.

According to the Office of the Attorney General, the National Aeronaval Service evacuated another 19 people to   Forensic Sciences to establish other possible victims. According to the first procedures carried out, 50 members of an alleged sect were involved in a ritual. 

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