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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:40 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/14/dixie-fire/\">Dixie Fire\u003c/a> in the sixth week of its rampage through the northern Sierra and beyond, PG&E is facing new scrutiny over its possible role in igniting the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility is facing a tough new round of questions from U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who is seeking new details about the company's response to a power line problem in the Feather River Canyon on July 13, the day the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his inquiry, Alsup has ordered a PG&E worker who responded to the line problem and eventually discovered the beginnings of the Dixie Fire to appear at a court hearing set for Sept. 13. The judge said he will issue a subpoena to compel the worker's appearance if he does not attend voluntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup is overseeing PG&E's probation for criminal convictions arising from the deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11287618/pge-gets-3m-fine-for-san-bruno-blast-must-advertise-its-conviction-on-tv\">2010 San Bruno natural gas pipeline disaster\u003c/a>. He wants the company to more fully explain the actions of the worker, called a troubleman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In orders issued \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21045564/1417-usavpge-210817.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuesday\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21045565/1418-usavpge-210818.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wednesday\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046071/1419-usavpge-210819.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thursday\u003c/a>, Alsup posed dozens of questions centering on events in the first 10 hours of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In filings submitted last month to the California Public Utilities Commission and Judge Alsup's court, PG&E reported that the first sign of problem in the area where the fire started was detected early July 13: A power outage was detected at the company's Cresta Dam, on the North Fork of the Feather River northeast of Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's filing explained that remote sensing equipment had detected a momentary surge of current on the three-conductor line at 6:48 a.m. The surge was too brief — just a few thousandths of a second — for a safety device called a recloser to trip and shut off power through the line. That meant that current continued to flow through the line in an area well known to be at high risk for wildfires as PG&E began the process of investigating the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most attention-getting detail in the company's account of its response was its admission that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881837/why-it-took-pge-9-5-hours-to-get-to-the-scene-where-dixie-fire-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it took nearly 10 hours\u003c/a> after the first sign of a problem for its troubleman to reach the site where a 70-foot Douglas-fir tree had fallen across a power line and ignited a small fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11881837 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/dixiefire-1536x851.jpg']The worker tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the blaze, which he described as growing to about 1,200 square feet as he fought it. A fire crew that happened to be driving up the other side of the Feather River on Highway 70 had already spotted the flames and, a few minutes after 5 p.m., reported the incident to a Cal Fire dispatcher as an \"established\" fire measuring about 40 feet by 40 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his long list of queries, Judge Alsup asks PG&E to explain why the power line problem apparently took so long to ignite the small fire the troubleman first encountered. Noting that no one had spotted a fire before the PG&E worker arrived at the site, Alsup asked, \"What, if anything, did the troubleman do upon his arrival at the site that might have accidentally caused the fire?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup's questions include a back-and-forth between the judge and PG&E over what the company knows about a drone flight that interfered with firefighters in the hours immediately following the discovery of the Dixie Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alsup \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884337/investigators-probing-pges-possible-link-to-fateful-dixie-fire-drone-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ordered the company \u003c/a>on Aug. 6 to tell him what it knows about the drone, including whether it might have been flown by a contractor. In a response filed Monday, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885363/pge-tells-judge-it-knows-nothing-about-dixie-fire-drone-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flatly denied\u003c/a> knowing anything about the drone flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, Alsup posed the drone question again. The judge said he had information by way of the court monitor assigned to track PG&E's safety performance that the company might know something about the drone after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court has received information that PG&E informed the monitor of the following: PG&E believed that the drone that interfered with Dixie firefighting on July 13 was being flown by a PG&E contractor at the time of the interference,\" Alsup wrote. \"PG&E believed that the contractor was not doing work for PG&E at the time of the interference, however, because records indicated that it had completed PG&E surveillance work for the day. Is it true that PG&E did believe that a PG&E contractor operated the drone (regardless of whether it was on behalf of PG&E or not)? What was the source of this information? Does PG&E still believe that?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PG&E reiterated it's \"not aware of any evidence that the company or any of its contractors operated a drone anywhere near the start of the Dixie fire on July 13.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We intend to update the court on what appears to be a misunderstanding based on early reports and preliminary information,\" the company said. \"We will clarify this information with the court and seek to clarify all stakeholders' understanding of the facts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire has burned more than 1,050 square miles over the past 38 days, has destroyed more than 500 homes and continues to threaten communities in Lassen, Plumas and Tehama counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-review-oscar-grant-case\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced Tuesday\u003c/span>\u003c/a> it will look into the actions of a former BART police officer who was involved, but never criminally charged, in the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant, a 24-year-old Black man, had no weapons and was being held down on his stomach on a Fruitvale BART station platform when transit cop Johannes Mehserle fired a fatal shot into his back. The incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823246/it-started-with-oscar-grant-a-police-shooting-in-oakland-and-the-making-of-a-movement-2\">led to massive protests\u003c/a> and murder charges for Mehserle. Mehserle, who said he confused his gun for his Taser, was convicted of manslaughter in 2010 and sentenced to a two-year prison term, of which he served 11 months. He was released in June 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now more than a decade later, California Attorney General Rob Bonta says his office will look into the actions of a second officer: Anthony ‘Tony’ Pirone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rev. Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant\"]‘[Pirone] should have been charged 12 years ago. And I’m grateful that the attorney general is stepping into it.’[/pullquote]“Transparency is critical to building and maintaining trust between law enforcement and the communities we serve,” Bonta said in a statement. “The California Department of Justice is committed to conducting a thorough, fair, and independent review and will go where the facts lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request for an independent review came from BART’s board of directors and Grant’s family including his mother, Rev. Wanda Johnson, according to the DOJ statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Pirone] should have been charged 12 years ago,” Johnson said. “And I’m grateful that the attorney general is stepping into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s decision to look into Pirone’s role in Oscar Grant’s killing comes on the heels of another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841062/alameda-da-reopens-investigation-into-oscar-grant-killing-nearly-12-years-later\">review of the case\u003c/a> done by Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley last year. In January, O’Malley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854829/crying-out-for-justice-oscar-grants-family-vows-to-keep-fighting-after-da-declines-to-file-new-charges\">announced her office would not bring criminal charges\u003c/a> against the former transit cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11854829 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-1020x741.jpg']Pirone was the first officer on the scene in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009, responding to a call about a fight on a crowded BART train. He pulled Grant off the train, kneed Grant and pinned him to the ground moments before Mehserle fired the fatal shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART fired Pirone in 2010, finding he was “in large part, responsible for setting the events in motion that created a chaotic and tense situation on the platform, setting the stage, even if inadvertent, for the shooting of Oscar Grant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit filed this year by KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880600/on-our-watch-litigation-reveals-new-details-in-police-shooting-of-oscar-grant\">uncovered new details\u003c/a> about Pirone’s involvement in Grant’s death and confidential tapes of BART’s flawed investigation of the incident that were featured in the investigative podcast “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510360/on-our-watch\">On Our Watch\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11880600 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/finalgrant_wide-e975852f7a7910e38d96a29e7717eea38cf16446-1020x574.jpg']Video footage and witness testimony revealed Pirone threw Grant’s friend Michael Greer to the ground, struck Grant repeatedly, and used the N-word in a verbal exchange with Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley called Pirone’s conduct “utterly unprofessional and disgraceful” in a recorded statement issued in January, but found his only potential crime was assault under color of authority. She said that is a misdemeanor, and the statute of limitations for that crime had long since expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no conduct [by Pirone] that would support felony murder,” O’Malley said in a June interview with KQED. A team of five lawyers from her office reviewed all the reports and videos, said O’Malley. “I know that we did more than we’ve done for most cases ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirone is currently a special forces communications sergeant serving in the California National Guard. 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It notes the promotion of former sheriff’s Captain Amy Le three months after she was present at the Hogan incident. She was also president of the correctional officers union at the time, which raised over $300,000 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703698/incumbent-santa-clara-county-sheriff-laurie-smith-takes-big-lead-in-early-returns\">Smith’s 2018 reelection campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Joe Simitian criticized a lack of transparency in that and other cases, calling for “a fuller understanding of what is and isn’t happening, what consequences there have or have not been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the sheriff’s office has stonewalled the county’s relatively new oversight office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Otto Lee, Santa Clara County Supervisor\"]‘Change is long overdue. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, a prominent San Francisco affordable housing advocate and community activist, resigned his seat on the city's Building Inspection Commission last week and took a leave of absence as chair of the nonprofit Latino Task Force's health committee following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jon-Jacobo-rising-San-Francisco-political-star-16371828.php#photo-21333574\">allegations that he raped a woman earlier this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1423674978948435973\">seven-page document posted to Twitter\u003c/a> on Aug. 6, housing organizer Sasha Perigo accused Jacobo, whom she had known since 2019 and considered a close friend, of raping her at his home in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, Perigo went to the hospital to complete a rape kit — also known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/articles/rape-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assault forensic exam\u003c/a> — and texted friends about what happened, actions experts say are important for sexual assault survivors to take when it comes to holding attackers accountable. Perigo included screenshots of text messages between herself and Jacobo as well as between her and friends in the document she posted to Twitter, along with a photo of a letter from SFPD confirming that her rape kit was processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police report is automatically generated when a rape kit is processed in order to catalogue evidence — but beyond that, Perigo has intentionally chosen not to pursue legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I haven't done is fill out any details,\" Perigo told KQED this week. \"I didn't talk to an officer at the hospital [or] give him Jon's name. And I don't want to cooperate with an investigation going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sasha Perigo\"]'I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man. [Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.'[/pullquote]Perigo shared some of the reasons why she's choosing not to pursue legal action against Jacobo: the trauma of retelling the incident, her distrust of the criminal justice system and the absence of a sense of justice she believes she would feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of reasons that victims of sexual assault don't go to the cops. That's actually quite common,\" Perigo said. \"To say that we don't take this seriously, unless people talk to the police, to me shows a misunderstanding of the crime of sexual assault and the trauma that follows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo was referencing remarks made by San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí last week before Jacobo resigned: \"We can't try people via social media. Regardless of what information is presented, I think everyone is afforded due process.\" He also indicated that only if criminal charges were filed would he see it as a strong indication of evidence warranting Jacobo's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many sexual assault survivors, the experience of having to retell their experience multiple times within the legal system is retraumatizing. \"That is not something I want to do,\" Perigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo also acknowledged what she sees as her own position of power within the justice system. \"I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man,\" Perigo said. \"[Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not trust the cops ... I genuinely believe that we should abolish and defund the police. I don't think justice is brought forward through our current criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo said her Twitter post marked a moment of letting go. \"This was kind of like the end for me,\" Perigo said. \"This was my closure. This isn't the beginning of a campaign to get justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even without Perigo's involvement, a rape case against Jacobo could still proceed. Rachel Marshall, a spokesperson for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's office, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/08/jon-jacobo-rape-case-could-proceed-regardless-of-accusers-wishes/\">told Mission Local this week\u003c/a> that Boudin's office is investigating the case in cooperation with SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prosecute violent crimes even without witness cooperation when we can prove the case,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Perigo's experience indicative of larger systemic issues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/staff/tinisch-hollins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, told KQED that Perigo's experience is part of a larger systemic failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to rape and sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When communities of color experience crime and violence, there’s a perception that we somehow contribute to our own victimization,” Hollins said, “rather than looking at the systemic issues and things that contribute to violence and crime in our communities, especially when it comes to sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins shared some of the reasons she's observed that people choose not to report sexual assault: “One is obviously the trauma of having to relive and retell your experiences to systems that are often not equipped to help you deal with the trauma,” she said. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two out of every three\u003c/a> sexual assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason Hollins said people choose not to report is that the process of prosecution can be lengthy. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209892449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rape kits were severely backlogged \u003c/a>for several years. Some sexual assault survivors had to wait over two years for the results. Hollins also said that while folks are waiting to go through the legal system, the people that assaulted them may not have been charged or prosecuted. \"Some people just don't feel safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to RAINN, of the sexual violence crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not reported to police from 2005 to 2010\u003c/a>, the top three reasons given were fear of retaliation (20%), belief the police would not do anything to help (13%) and the belief that it was a personal matter (13%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"sexual-assault, domestic-violence\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]In a Medium post titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@MyrnaMelgar4D7?p=81202c98e044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yo Tambien\u003c/a>\" (\"Me Too\" in Spanish), San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar wrote about her own experience of sexual assault, and encouraged others to avoid perpetuating a false narrative from the decision not to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A system that has never been fair to either men of color nor to female victims of sexual assault — is being used as evidence to render her word suspect,\" she wrote on Aug. 8. \"The system places the burden on the victim to pursue justice. Let me state unequivocally that this is crap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our #YoTambien moment, San Francisqueños,\" Melgar added. \"Part of growing and developing young leaders ... is to hold them accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar further emphasized the systemic nature of sexual violence and the need to do \"the hard work of dismantling the patriarchal systems within our own community and holding our leaders accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of racial disparity in sentencing by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Society Foundations\u003c/a> found that young Black and Latino men tend to be sentenced more severely than their white male counterparts. This sentencing disparity has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted in recent years\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, specifically in the case of how judge Aaron Persky chose to sentence Brock Turner compared to Raul Ramirez: Turner received a six-month jail sentence and probation while Ramirez was sentenced to three years in state prison for similar sexual assault charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said she doesn’t believe the criminal justice system offers as many options as many victims and survivors would like to see when it comes to intimate partner violence. “The majority of cases, even if they are reported, go without conviction,” she said, which leaves people with no closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many barriers, “it's understandable that many people just don't even see the point in reporting the crime to begin with,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hollins also noted that there is still an opportunity for reckoning and healing \"not just this particular situation,\" she said, but also the broader situation, which is \"this overall conversation about folks who have an obligation to protect and heal our communities, [who are] working on their own self-healing and traumas that may have influenced them to behave a certain way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo did not reply to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Resources\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (\u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAINN\u003c/a>) created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, which is 24/7, confidential and free: (800) 656-HOPE/(800) 656-4673\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bay Area Women Against Rape (\u003ca href=\"https://bawar.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BAWAR\u003c/a>) operates a 24-hour hotline in English and Spanish: (510) 345-1056\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ifrsf.org/mission_and_vision\">Instituto Familiar de la Raza\u003c/a> offers therapy and counseling in English and Spanish: (415) 229-0500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensbuilding.org/advocacy/sexual-assault-prevention/\">The Women's Building's Sexual Assault & Harassment Prevention Project\u003c/a>: (415) 431-1180, ext. 20\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Perigo shared some of the reasons why she's choosing not to pursue legal action against Jacobo: the trauma of retelling the incident, her distrust of the criminal justice system and the absence of a sense of justice she believes she would feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of reasons that victims of sexual assault don't go to the cops. That's actually quite common,\" Perigo said. \"To say that we don't take this seriously, unless people talk to the police, to me shows a misunderstanding of the crime of sexual assault and the trauma that follows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo was referencing remarks made by San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí last week before Jacobo resigned: \"We can't try people via social media. Regardless of what information is presented, I think everyone is afforded due process.\" He also indicated that only if criminal charges were filed would he see it as a strong indication of evidence warranting Jacobo's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many sexual assault survivors, the experience of having to retell their experience multiple times within the legal system is retraumatizing. \"That is not something I want to do,\" Perigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo also acknowledged what she sees as her own position of power within the justice system. \"I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man,\" Perigo said. \"[Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not trust the cops ... I genuinely believe that we should abolish and defund the police. I don't think justice is brought forward through our current criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo said her Twitter post marked a moment of letting go. \"This was kind of like the end for me,\" Perigo said. \"This was my closure. This isn't the beginning of a campaign to get justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even without Perigo's involvement, a rape case against Jacobo could still proceed. Rachel Marshall, a spokesperson for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's office, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/08/jon-jacobo-rape-case-could-proceed-regardless-of-accusers-wishes/\">told Mission Local this week\u003c/a> that Boudin's office is investigating the case in cooperation with SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prosecute violent crimes even without witness cooperation when we can prove the case,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Perigo's experience indicative of larger systemic issues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/staff/tinisch-hollins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, told KQED that Perigo's experience is part of a larger systemic failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to rape and sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When communities of color experience crime and violence, there’s a perception that we somehow contribute to our own victimization,” Hollins said, “rather than looking at the systemic issues and things that contribute to violence and crime in our communities, especially when it comes to sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins shared some of the reasons she's observed that people choose not to report sexual assault: “One is obviously the trauma of having to relive and retell your experiences to systems that are often not equipped to help you deal with the trauma,” she said. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two out of every three\u003c/a> sexual assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason Hollins said people choose not to report is that the process of prosecution can be lengthy. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209892449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rape kits were severely backlogged \u003c/a>for several years. Some sexual assault survivors had to wait over two years for the results. Hollins also said that while folks are waiting to go through the legal system, the people that assaulted them may not have been charged or prosecuted. \"Some people just don't feel safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to RAINN, of the sexual violence crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not reported to police from 2005 to 2010\u003c/a>, the top three reasons given were fear of retaliation (20%), belief the police would not do anything to help (13%) and the belief that it was a personal matter (13%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That tells you there needs to be a change at the top.”[aside postID=\"news_11777176,news_11285099,news_10875665\" Label=\"Santa Clara County Jails\" target=\"blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two supervisors question the sheriff’s accountability and raise the “appearance of impropriety” in the Hogan case in light of campaign spending to reelect Smith in 2018 by a former high-ranking sheriff’s official reportedly involved in the incident. They’re also seeking public release of documents and video recordings from the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Bad things are going to happen’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hogan, who is diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, was supposed to be taken to the psychiatric unit at Santa Clara County’s main jail, his attorney Paula Canny said. 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Get me out of here!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s video from an officer’s body camera of Hogan beginning to bang his head in the van while it’s en route, Canny said, but the officers didn’t stop or redirect to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time they arrived at a secure entrance to the main jail, “Andy had literally started to bang the brains out of his head,” Canny said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County supervisor\"]‘We have tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. That tells you there needs to be a change at the top.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An as-yet-unidentified sergeant and then-watch commander Lt. 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The correctional officers’ political action committee would make about $300,000 in independent campaign expenditures to reelect the sheriff by the year’s end, effectively doubling Smith’s campaign funding, Simitian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s current president said in a written statement that the SCCCPOA “followed all election laws during the entire 2018 campaign cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision to endorse the Sheriff was done by secret ballot of the entire membership,” union President Todd Kendrick wrote. “In this vote, the Sheriff received a substantial majority. Amy Le had a single vote in this matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le was promoted to captain after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703698/incumbent-santa-clara-county-sheriff-laurie-smith-takes-big-lead-in-early-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smith’s reelection\u003c/a> in November 2018, three months being involved in the incident with Andrew Hogan. 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"content": "\u003cp>Firefighters battling the massive Dixie Fire have also been facing a second enemy: a serial arsonist who went on a spree of setting fires in July and August — and who sought to trap fire crews with his fires, according to agents from the U.S. Forest Service. They allege former college professor Gary Maynard is the culprit, citing their tracking of his movements and other evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where Maynard went, fires started. Not just once, but over and over again,\" the government said in a court memorandum arguing for Maynard, who was arrested Saturday, to be denied bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge agreed to that request during a brief hearing Wednesday, saying there are no \"conditions or combination of conditions that would provide the necessary level of safety to this community should the defendant be released.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: \"Based on that finding, the defendant will be detained as a risk of non-appearance and a danger to the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maynard's next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 24, a representative of the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While court documents allege that Maynard is connected to more than a half-dozen dangerous fires in Northern California, he is currently charged with starting only the Ranch Fire. That blaze broke out on Saturday morning in a remote area where, according to court records, Maynard had just camped for the night. It's one of three fires that officials said Maynard set in recent days — all of them close to the Dixie Fire's northeastern footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He entered the evacuation zone and began setting fires behind the first responders fighting the Dixie fire,\" the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said in court papers. It added, \"Maynard's fires were placed in the perfect position to increase the risk of firefighters being trapped between fires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maynard's alleged offenses \"show that he is particularly dangerous, even among arsonists,\" the federal prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren't for the surveillance federal agents were conducting on Maynard, the fires would have been much worse and the risk to firefighters would have been greater, the document said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1879px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11884691\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1879\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d.jpg 1879w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d-1536x866.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1879px) 100vw, 1879px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map submitted with court papers shows the massive Dixie Fire, in red, along with three fires that U.S. Forest Service agents allege Maynard set. No. 1 marks the approximate location of the Moon Fire, which started Aug. 5; No. 2 refers to the Ranch Fire; and No. 3 refers to the Conard Fire. The latter two ignited on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy U.S. Forest Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Maynard Identified After His Car Got Stuck Near a Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maynard, 47, is a former professor who has taught at colleges in the Bay Area and in New York, according to online records. Last fall, he taught in the criminology and criminal justice department at \u003ca href=\"https://ccjs.sonoma.edu/news-events/ccjs-welcomes-new-lecturers-fall-2020\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a>, which says in its official bio for Maynard that he has a doctorate in sociology and three master's degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His teaching and research, the school said, focuses on topics that include the \"sociology of health, deviance and crime\" and environmental sociology. Maynard also has connections to other schools, from Stony Brook University in New York (where he received his doctorate) to Santa Clara University, where he also taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 20, Maynard was spotted near the scene of the Cascade Fire, on the western slopes of Mount Shasta. A mountain biker in those remote woods had noticed signs of a fire, called 911 and then worked to limit the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Forest Service fire investigator determined the Cascade Fire was likely the result of arson. He also noticed that on a dirt road 150 to 200 yards from the fire, a man was struggling to free his car, a black Kia Soul, after the vehicle's rear had failed to clear a partially buried boulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A witness told investigators that the man, later identified as Maynard, had arrived several hours before the fire started, court records show. The witness said the man had walked off in the direction of where the fire eventually ignited, returning around 10 minutes later. After the man returned, the witness recalled, smoke from the Cascade Fire became visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator kept his distance from Maynard, citing the man's \"uncooperative and agitated behavior.\" But he took a picture of his car, and the license plate number led to Maynard. Forest Service agents also measured and recorded data about the tire tread pattern left by Maynard's car — evidence that they say ties him to a string of arson wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full complaint \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21040032/maynard-complaint-usfs.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tracking an Arson Suspect\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an affidavit requesting an arrest warrant for Maynard, U.S. Forest Service Special Agent Tyler Bolen said he used a variety of means to learn more about the arson suspect, from internet searches that turned up his ties to colleges to inquiries with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA, Bolen says, confirmed that Maynard had an electronic benefits transfer account. Tracing his use of the card at grocery stores, the Forest Service was able to place Maynard close to the time and place where a number of fires were set, according to Bolen's affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EBT account showed Maynard made purchases at a Safeway in Fortuna, along California's coast, on July 18, and then, a week later, at a Safeway store in Susanville — some 260 miles inland, just east of the Lassen National Forest across the Sierra from where the Dixie Fire erupted in mid-July, the affidavit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Maynard's car was registered in San José, Bolen also contacted the San José Police Department, which passed along a 2020 warning from a colleague who had reported her concern for Maynard's well-being, citing a severe mental health crisis. Crucially, the police agency shared Maynard's cellphone number, which was later confirmed to be linked to his EBT account, according to the affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Part of 'An Arson-Setting Spree'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Investigators said they've connected Maynard to a string of fires in Northern California, as early as the Bradley Fire that destroyed over 300 acres on July 11, and possibly as early as the Sweetbriar Fire on July 6. Both of those blazes struck in the Mount Shasta area, northwest of the Lassen National Forest where the Dixie Fire is still raging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days, authorities said, Maynard set numerous fires in the Lassen area — part of \"an arson-setting spree,\" Bolen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, Forest Service agents grew so concerned about Maynard's actions that they also asked Verizon Wireless for 15-minute updates on his location, 24 hours a day. Eventually, an agent also installed a tracker on Maynard's car, according to Bolen's affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents used that data to follow along behind Maynard, putting out several fires and gathering evidence that could link him to the blazes. Investigators also obtained warrants requiring Verizon Wireless to preserve evidence from Maynard's cellphone account that could show his movements and activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Lassen County sheriff's deputies arrested Maynard after a California Highway Patrol officer initially pulled him over for driving in an emergency closure area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maynard Denies Starting the Fires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After his arrest, Maynard told Forest Service agents he had not started any fires. He was then booked into the Lassen County Jail on a charge of violating a state law that forbids entering a closed emergency area. But later Saturday, a deputy told him that a federal felony arson charge was being added. An angry Maynard insisted that he is innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm going to kill you, f***ing pig! I told those f***ers I didn't start any of those fires!\" he said to the deputy, according to the affidavit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maynard was later transferred to Sacramento County's jail. He had a brief court appearance by video Tuesday, followed by his detention hearing on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days before he was taken into custody, Maynard allegedly set the Moon Fire on Aug. 5, as well as the Ranch and Conard fires, which both ignited on Saturday, according to Bolen's affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maynard now faces federal charges of setting fire to land that's owned by the U.S. or is under its jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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No. 1 marks the approximate location of the Moon Fire, which started Aug. 5; No. 2 refers to the Ranch Fire; and No. 3 refers to the Conard Fire. The latter two ignited on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy U.S. Forest Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Maynard Identified After His Car Got Stuck Near a Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maynard, 47, is a former professor who has taught at colleges in the Bay Area and in New York, according to online records. Last fall, he taught in the criminology and criminal justice department at \u003ca href=\"https://ccjs.sonoma.edu/news-events/ccjs-welcomes-new-lecturers-fall-2020\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a>, which says in its official bio for Maynard that he has a doctorate in sociology and three master's degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His teaching and research, the school said, focuses on topics that include the \"sociology of health, deviance and crime\" and environmental sociology. Maynard also has connections to other schools, from Stony Brook University in New York (where he received his doctorate) to Santa Clara University, where he also taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 20, Maynard was spotted near the scene of the Cascade Fire, on the western slopes of Mount Shasta. A mountain biker in those remote woods had noticed signs of a fire, called 911 and then worked to limit the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Forest Service fire investigator determined the Cascade Fire was likely the result of arson. He also noticed that on a dirt road 150 to 200 yards from the fire, a man was struggling to free his car, a black Kia Soul, after the vehicle's rear had failed to clear a partially buried boulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A witness told investigators that the man, later identified as Maynard, had arrived several hours before the fire started, court records show. The witness said the man had walked off in the direction of where the fire eventually ignited, returning around 10 minutes later. After the man returned, the witness recalled, smoke from the Cascade Fire became visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator kept his distance from Maynard, citing the man's \"uncooperative and agitated behavior.\" But he took a picture of his car, and the license plate number led to Maynard. Forest Service agents also measured and recorded data about the tire tread pattern left by Maynard's car — evidence that they say ties him to a string of arson wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full complaint \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21040032/maynard-complaint-usfs.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tracking an Arson Suspect\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an affidavit requesting an arrest warrant for Maynard, U.S. Forest Service Special Agent Tyler Bolen said he used a variety of means to learn more about the arson suspect, from internet searches that turned up his ties to colleges to inquiries with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA, Bolen says, confirmed that Maynard had an electronic benefits transfer account. 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"title": "'Jugó con las mentes de las personas': Un sacerdote de Fresno dejó un rastro de acusaciones de abuso sexual",
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"headTitle": "‘Jugó con las mentes de las personas’: Un sacerdote de Fresno dejó un rastro de acusaciones de abuso sexual | KQED",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Advertencia al lector: Algunos relatos de las denuncias de agresión sexual en esta historia contienen detalles explícitos y lenguaje fuerte que a algunas personas les pudieran incomodar o resultar ofensivos.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825276/he-played-with-peoples-minds-fresno-priest-left-a-trail-of-sexual-abuse-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Actualización, 8 de agosto de 2021:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde la publicación de esta historia, varios ex feligreses que hablaron con KQED presentaron una demanda en contra del sacerdote de Fresno, Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, y la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín, alegando que Castañeda los había agredido sexualmente. La demanda se resolvió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otras diez personas entablaron \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21012428-20210602094804722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">otra demanda\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) en contra del sacerdote y su antiguo empleador en abril de 2021, alegando que el religioso los agredió sexualmente, o lo intentó. Una de ellas dice que era una menor de edad cuando esto sucedió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda continúa predicando a sus seguidores en Fresno, ya sea a través de Facebook Live o en persona en eventos privados según antiguos miembros de la iglesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde finales de junio, seguía perteneciendo a World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches, una organización religiosa con sede en el Reino Unido, que lo aceptó como sacerdote en enero de 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El estatus del padre Antonio no ha cambiado. Estamos esperando que concluya el proceso legal debido en este caso”, dijo Bruce Taylor, arzobispo del grupo en Norteamérica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda sigue en libertad bajo fianza, a la espera de un juicio previsto para marzo de 2022. Su abogado defensor, Ralph Torres, se negó a hacer comentarios sobre la demanda presentada a principios de este año. Más intentos de contactar a Castañeda no tuvieron éxito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historia Original:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis dijo que él no le podía decir a la doctora lo que en verdad había pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ya habían transcurrido varios días desde que notó sangre en su orina y los moretones en el área de la ingle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El hombre de 40 años, oriundo de Jalisco, México, se había estado reuniendo con un popular sacerdote local en Fresno, Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, quien era conocido con el nombre de padre Antonio. Su familia lo había presentado con el padre Antonio con la esperanza de que el sacerdote le pudiera ayudar a Luis a mejorar su vida, ya que había batallado con la adicción a las metanfetaminas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Venía mucha gente a buscarlo”, dijo Luis, este no es su verdadero nombre. KQED no está utilizando los verdaderos nombres de los supuestos sobrevivientes al abuso sexual en esta historia. “Según los otros, era algo… un don de Dios que él tenía”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En aquel entonces, el padre Antonio era el pastor principal de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, una congregación que ofrece servicios en español de la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín. El carismático liderazgo del sacerdote atrajo a cientos de personas de la comunidad latina de Fresno y se rumoraba que por sus supuestos dotes de sanación se había ganado el sobrenombre de “el padrecito que hace milagros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante las sesiones en la oficina del padre Antonio, las cuales dice Luis que se llevaron a cabo durante varios años, él se acostaba en un banco o mesa para masajes vestido solo con su calzoncillo bóxer mientras el padre Antonio oraba y le frotaba aceite en la piel. La intensidad del masaje era tan brusca que el sacerdote con frecuencia le dejaba moretones, según testificó Luis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=]‘Una investigación de KQED descubrió que Castañeda había sido acusado anteriormente y que se había trasladado de la Iglesia Católica a la Iglesia Anglicana y luego a otro grupo religioso sin someterse a una revisión completa de sus antecedentes, o a ninguna.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él les dijo a su mamá y a su novia que se había lastimado en su trabajo de construcción. Era una explicación que le parecía más fácil, dijo él. Y ahora, en la clínica, el doctor le hizo más preguntas – preguntas que Luis dijo, no se sentía cómodo en contestar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No le dije (al doctor) que alguien me había tocado”, dijo Luis a KQED en noviembre de 2019. “Es difícil que un hombre toque otro… un adulto… toque a otro adulto. Entonces, con qué cara yo iba a decir, pues, me tocó, o…? Es un poco ridículo. Pero (…) porque la gente no iba a creerme lo que yo les iba a decir”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el tiempo, Luis les dijo a las autoridades que fue durante esos masajes – que según el sacerdote eran necesarios para expulsar la ‘maldición’ de su cuerpo – que el padre Antonio abusó de él sexualmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11826082 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis fue uno de los al menos dos hombres que declararon ante los funcionarios de la iglesia anglicana que el padre Antonio Castañeda les había agredido sexualmente durante años, durante unos rituales de curación que incluían oraciones y masajes que, según el sacerdote, podían curarles de sus pecados sexuales. (Luis es un seudónimo. KQED no está utilizando los nombres reales de los presuntos supervivientes de agresiones sexuales en esta historia). \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Una cura para maldiciones y pecados sexuales\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEn 2017, varios hombres se presentaron con alegatos de que Castañeda había abusado sexualmente de los feligreses durante unos masajes que él les había dicho los curaría física o espiritualmente, dijo el obispo Eric Menees de la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todas las víctimas con las que me reuní al principio eran hombres indocumentados, así que acudir a la policía era algo que les daba miedo”, dijo Meneses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero a principios de 2018, Luis y otros hombres estuvieron de acuerdo en ser entrevistados por detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La otra supuesta víctima dijo a la policía que Castañeda le dijo que se masturbara frente a él en múltiples ocasiones, de acuerdo con información en una declaración a un investigador de la policía de Fresno para respaldar una orden de arresto. Él dijo que el sacerdote le dijo que tenía que ver su semen para determinar la ‘maldición’ exacta o la supuesta enfermedad que lo afligía. En una ocasión, el hombre dijo que Castañeda lo abrazó y le dijo que lo amaba “como un hombre ama a una mujer”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda fue arrestado en febrero de 2019 y fue puesto en libertad bajo fianza al siguiente día. Más de 40 feligreses les dijeron a los funcionarios de la iglesia que ellos o alguien a quien ellos conocían había sido víctima de abuso por parte de Castañeda, dijo Menees a KQED por correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hasta ahora, nueve personas – ocho hombres, incluyendo Luis, y una mujer – están en una lista de supuestas víctimas en el proceso penal, de acuerdo con los testimonios ante el juzgado. La policía dijo que la mayoría de las personas que se han presentado son indocumentadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda se enfrenta a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6951672-AC-UPDATED-COMPLAINT.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22 cargos\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) de agresión, agresión sexual, intento de agresión sexual e intento de disuadir a un testigo. Se esperaba que el juicio de su caso iniciara este año, pero se ha retrasado debido a la pandemia del coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una investigación realizada por KQED encontró que Castañeda se cambió de la Iglesia Católica a la Iglesia Anglicana y, después, a otro grupo religioso, sin pasar por una revisión completa de antecedentes o alguna revisión en lo absoluto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras está en espera de su juicio, Castañeda ya abrió una nueva iglesia donde sigue dirigiendo los servicios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda ha negado todos los cargos a través de su abogado, Ralph Torres, quien dijo que los acusadores del sacerdote han malinterpretado una forma, según él, de sanación tradicional aceptada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esto es algo cultural”, dijo Torres. “Este tipo de masajes de sanación pasa en todo Latinoamérica, México y los Estados Unidos. No hay nada inusual en cuanto a eso. Puede haber un malentendido, y fue algo que no apreciaron”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres dijo que su cliente nunca abusó sexualmente de los feligreses y que “la verdad saldrá en el juicio”. Además declinó la solicitud de KQED de entrevistar a su cliente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas que testificaron en una \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781717/fresno-priest-accused-of-sexual-abuse-of-immigrant-parishioners-to-stand-trial\">\u003cu>audiencia preliminar\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) en el otoño de 2019 dijeron que el sacerdote les dijo que estaban maldecidos, les frotó los genitales con aceite o los convenció de que se masturbaran frente a él para que se curaran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11825816 size-medium\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una de las presuntas víctimas en el caso penal declaró que acudió a esta oficina en Fresno con su ex mujer para recibir asesoramiento del padre Antonio Castañeda y que fue llevado a una sala de conferencias y abusado por el sacerdote. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Algunos dijeron que ellos buscaron la guía de Castañeda durante tiempos difíciles en sus vidas: el fin de una relación, adicción al alcohol o a las drogas y, en un caso, la muerte de un hijo, según información de testimonio en el juzgado. Con frecuencia avergonzados y confusos sobre las sesiones en su oficina, pero con la esperanza de que los pudiera ayudar, algunos feligreses dijeron que ellos regresaron a Castañeda una y otra vez durante años. Otros mantuvieron el supuesto abuso escondido de sus propios familiares, de quienes después se enteraron que también fueron supuestas víctimas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El caso plantea la problemática sobre la vulnerabilidad de los adultos, incluyendo inmigrantes indocumentados, al abuso sexual en la Iglesia, y revela cómo las instituciones religiosas están batallando por responder – décadas después de que saliera a la luz el encubrimiento sistemático de abuso sexual en la Iglesia católica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno se siente como que – ¿acaso todavía soy hombre? ¿O tan siquiera soy lo suficientemente hombre?”, una supuesta víctima en el caso le dijo a KQED. “Yo dejé que otro hombre me tocara. Uno siente como si le hubieran robado su identidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vengo a buscar al padrecito que hace milagros\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAlgunos exfeligreses le dijeron a KQED que ellos creían que Castañeda en verdad sanaba a la gente, razón por la cual muchos han batallado en aceptar las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda vino a Fresno alrededor del 2007 y empezó a prepararse para ser un sacerdote anglicano. Los feligreses dijeron que él practicaba la sanación que incluía poner las manos en el cuerpo para curar enfermedades y hacía rituales de ‘limpiezas’ que incluían velas, sábanas y frotar aceite y sal en el cuerpo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bajo la dirección de Castañeda, los feligreses de Nuestra Señora dijeron que ellos fueron testigos de fenómenos que todavía no pueden explicar: hubo una historia de un paciente moribundo al que según ellos el padre logró sacar de asistencia médica para seguir con vida, el hombre que los feligreses dicen que se elevó del piso mientras ellos oraban por él en lo que parecía un exorcismo dirigido por el sacerdote, y la mujer cuyo cáncer Castañeda dijo que había curado – supuestamente al remover una masa de su cuerpo – enfrente de toda la congregación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rosalina Rodriguez, ex feligresa de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe\"]‘Jugaba con la mente de la gente. Decía: ‘Tienes cáncer’ o ‘Tienes esta enfermedad, tienes esto o aquello’. Y siempre le ponía enfermedades a la gente para poder curarla.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En las misas de sanación, Castañeda colocaba las manos sobre la cabeza de los feligreses y ellos caían al piso o “descansaban en el espíritu” – habiendo sido sobrecogidos por el Espíritu Santo, dijeron exfeligreses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una ocasión, en una venta de artículos de segunda mano que hizo la iglesia, una exfeligresa, Rosalina Rodríguez, dijo que ella se acuerda que una mujer dijo: “Vengo a buscar el padrecito que hace milagros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez dijo que ella escuchó a Castañeda contestar: “Aquí no hay ningún padrecito que hace milagros. Los hace Dios”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si un feligrés necesitaba sanación, Castañeda lo veía en privado en su oficina, dijeron varios exmiembros de la congregación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynaga dijo que ella y otros feligreses con frecuencia acompañaban a Castañeda a las casas para que él pudiera orar por las personas. Ella dijo que el sacerdote les dijo que algunos hombres necesitaban sanación porque una exesposa o una exnovia los había maldecido.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Decía que sus partes íntimas estaban ‘atadas’ por lo que tenía que masajearlas”, dijo Reynaga, añadiendo que el sacerdote le pedía que saliera de la habitación en un momento determinado de la oración. Dijo que nunca lo vio tocar indebidamente a nadie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11825818 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Reynaga, antigua asistente del padre Antonio Castañeda, dijo que ella y otros feligreses le acompañaban a menudo a las casas de la gente para que pudiera rezar por ellos. El sacerdote le pedía que saliera de la habitación en un momento determinado de la oración. Dice que nunca le vio tocar indebidamente a nadie. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Algunas supuestas víctimas dijeron que Castañeda tenía a otra persona en el cuarto ayudándole durante los supuestos masajes de oración. Personas que presenciaron los rituales de Castañeda dijeron que el sacerdote alegaba haber sacado sustancias amarillas o negras de los cuerpos de la gente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunos feligreses dijeron que Castañeda también les dijo que él era un psicólogo autorizado. Fueron infructuosos los intentos por encontrar algún registro de que Castañeda estuviera autorizado para ejercer la psicología.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jugaba con la mente de las personas”, dijo Rodríguez. “Y les decía, usted tiene cáncer, o tiene esta enfermedad, tiene esta o aquella. Y siempre estaba poniendo enfermedades a las personas, para después tratar de curarlas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los registros del juzgado muestran que un exfeligrés, José Magaña, le dijo a la policía que, en 2015, Castañeda le pidió que lo acompañara mientras oraba por un hombre joven que sufría de drogadicción. Magaña dijo que él vio que Castañeda metió la mano por uno de los huecos del calzoncillo bóxer del hombre y haló sus genitales mientras el hombre gritaba. Magaña le dijo a la policía que él se fue confuso y afectado espiritualmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magaña dijo que él después le contó el incidente a sus compañeros feligreses. “Y les dije, ¿saben qué?, pasó eso, eso. (Y ellos dijeron), o no te preocupes, es que si lo hace pero es parte de la oración”, dijo Magaña. “Y dije, ‘pero es que no era necesario’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Prof. Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Directora de Estudios Católicos, Universidad de Iowa\"]‘La gente podría decir, bueno, es un problema sólo de la Iglesia Católica. Yo diría que es un problema de concentración de poder y falta de supervisión.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En las tradiciones pentecostés y católica carismática es común que un líder de la fe se anuncie como un instrumento de Dios, dijo la profesora Kristy Nabhan-Warren, presidenta de estudios católicos en la Universidad de Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cada vez que estás ante un patriarcado fuerte o una concentración intensa de poder en alguna institución (…) tendrás abuso”, dijo. “La gente puede decir, bueno, es un problema que solo se da en la Iglesia Católica. Diría que es un problema de concentración de poder y falta de supervisión”, explicó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Una acusación anterior\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAños antes de que alguien hiciera una denuncia en Fresno, la Iglesia Católica en el estado de Washington había lidiado con una acusación de mala conducta en contra de Castañeda. Los registros que obtuvo KQED muestran que un exvoluntario de la iglesia alegó que Castañeda lo había tocado de manera inapropiada cuando Castañeda era pastor en la parroquia San Juan Diego, en Cowiche, a 20 minutos al noroeste de Yákima, Washington, de 2003 a 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En 2007, cuando la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín estaba considerando contratar a Castañeda, ellos solicitaron los servicios de Oxford Document Management Company para realizar una revisión de antecedentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La compañía mandó un cuestionario a la Diócesis Católica de Yákima, el anterior empleador de Castañeda, haciendo preguntas que incluyeron si él, en alguna vez, había tenido contacto sexual en un contexto profesional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El obispo Carlos A. Sevilla de la Diócesis de Yákima \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6957627-Diocese-Corr-AC-May-24-2007-Re-AC-Questionaire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contestó\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés), diciendo que él no podía responder el cuestionario, pero que Castañeda había sido dado de baja de su puesto clerical en la Iglesia Católica por “razones significativas y graves”. Una \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6957642-Fax-and-Memo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carta de seguimiento\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) dio detalles adicionales: Castañeda había violado el sello de confesión.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, Castañeda fue ordenado por la Diócesis Anglicana en 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1NIcyRVlsmmpiyWx6vL-KLy28B0W5ofcPeMBvMv-Hwa4&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el tiempo, la Diócesis Católica prestó atención a la acusación del voluntario de la iglesia, según un memorándum interno que obtuvo KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6952052-Yakima-Investigator-Memo-4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">documento\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés), al que se le han eliminado muchas partes, hace un resumen de la conversación telefónica entre una investigadora privada y el hombre, quien dijo que le tenía miedo a Castañeda porque “había tenido una mala experiencia” con él. Él le dijo a la investigadora que Castañeda había “abusado de su poder” y a veces era “sexualmente agresivo” con él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El hombre dijo que Castañeda le había pedido examinarlo después de haberle dicho al sacerdote que había descubierto un tumor en uno de sus testículos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La víctima le dijo que ya había ido al doctor a lo cual el padre Castañeda declaró: ‘Yo soy doctor y soy responsable de tu salud. Tienes que dejarme verlo’”, dice el documento. “La víctima dijo: ‘el padre Castañeda empezó a tocarme y a decirme que lo dejara revisar mis testículos’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando la investigadora le preguntó si Castañeda había tocado el pene del hombre, él dijo, “Sí, allí y toda el área de mis testículos y luego él dijo que todo se veía bien”, de acuerdo con el documento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El hombre dijo que él se molestó mucho con Castañeda y “le preguntó si ya estaba feliz”, dice el documento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de la entrevista de la investigadora con el ex voluntario de la iglesia, la Diócesis Católica en Yákima \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6929503-Informing-of-Allegation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notificó\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) sobre la acusación a la Diócesis Anglicana de Fresno en agosto de 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero el obispo anglicano de aquel entonces, John-David Schofield, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6954448-Corr-W-Anglicans-Re-AC-July-Sept-2009-4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">respondió\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) diciendo que él había entrevistado a Castañeda y que, “en la medida de mis capacidades, me parece que el Padre Antonio ha sido acusado falsamente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No está claro si los funcionarios diocesanos en Fresno en alguna ocasión dieron a conocer la acusación a los feligreses de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Hay 15 feligreses actuales y anteriores – de los 23 entrevistados para este reportaje – que dijeron que a ellos nunca se les informó que se había registrado una acusación anterior en contra de Castañeda. Los ocho feligreses restantes no respondieron a las llamadas de seguimiento sobre si se les había informado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando se preguntó si los feligreses habían sido notificados de la acusación, el actual obispo de la diócesis, Menees, dijo en un correo electrónico: “Debido al proceso penal y civil pendiente, los abogados me han aconsejado que no haga comentario”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Luis (Luis es un seudónimo. KQED no utiliza los nombres reales de los presuntos supervivientes de agresiones sexuales en este reportaje.)\"]‘Empecé a darme cuenta de que, bueno, esto no estaba bien. No tenía ni idea de cuántas personas estaban pasando por lo mismo que yo.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tres personas también levantaron una demanda legal en contra de Castañeda y de la Diócesis Anglicana. Ellos alegan que Castañeda abusó sexualmente de ellos y que el sacerdote y la iglesia violaron su confianza. En la demanda legal se alega que la iglesia fue negligente al contratar y supervisar a Castañeda, lo cual resultó en imposición de estrés emocional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El año pasado, cuando la Diócesis de Yákima publicó su \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774404-Yakima-Diocese-Abuse-Disclosure-List-07-09-19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lista de sacerdotes acusados con fundamento\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés), Castañeda no estaba incluido. El monseñor Robert Siler explicó que eso se debe a que Castañeda nunca fue acusado de abusar de un menor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo creo que nuestro sistema legal reconoce que los adultos tienen más capacidad de decir, ‘no,’ y de hacer reportes y de presentarse”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Siler dijo que la responsabilidad de no volver a cometer la ofensa queda en Castañeda – no en una iglesia que anteriormente lo empleó – y que “hicimos tanto como pudimos” para advertir a la Diócesis Anglicana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No me puedo imaginar que la Diócesis de Yákima tuviera los recursos para andar siguiéndolo con un anuncio que dijera, por ejemplo, ‘No se acerquen a este hombre’”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Yo quería estar bien, así que regresé”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDe regreso en Fresno, Luis pensó que por fin estaba ganándose la confianza de su familia de nuevo al estar involucrado con la iglesia y al ir a la oficina de Castañeda para los masajes de oración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis dijo que el sacerdote le dijo que como él había estado con tantas mujeres, él estaba maldito y que, para saber cómo es que tenía que ser sanado, tenía que ver su semen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El estaba en la oficina y me dijo: ‘Es que yo tengo que verlo, mi muchacho, yo tengo que sanarlo de eso que usted tiene. Y necesito verlo. Y yo le decía no’”, dijo Luis a KQED, añadiendo que el sacerdote empezó a pedirle que se quitara su calzoncillo bóxer para las sesiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante un masaje, Luis testificó, Castañeda colocó una toalla en su regazo y metió la mano por debajo de la toalla – jalándole fuerte de repente el pene. Luis dijo que él se tuvo que doblar repentinamente del dolor y trató de agarrar a Castañeda, pero no pudo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él le dijo a Castañeda que no le tocara allí.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Luis salió de la oficina, dijo que su calzoncillo bóxer estaba manchado de sangre. Luis dijo que sintió que Castañeda lo había manipulado a él y a otros feligreses que estaban “puros ansiosos de estar bien en nuestras vidas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11826162 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis había luchado contra la adicción a la metanfetamina y esperaba poder ganarse de nuevo la confianza de su familia si seguía participando en la iglesia y acudía al despacho del padre Antonio Castañeda para recibir masajes de oración. Luis dijo que el sacerdote le dijo que, por haber estado con tantas mujeres, estaba maldito. Para saber cómo tenía que curarse, dijo que el sacerdote le dijo que tenía que ver su semen. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luis después testificó que las sesiones con el padre Antonio se llevaron a cabo durante el curso de varios años, comenzando aproximadamente en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Entonces, me metí esa espinita de que estoy mal o estoy cayendo otra vez en lo mismo. Entonces, yo no quería eso. Yo quería estar bien”, dijo Luis. “Volví a ir otra vez a sus sesiones”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero el estar libre de drogas también le ha dado a Luis un sentido de claridad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hasta que poco a poco, me fui dando cuenta de que pues, en realidad, no estaba bien lo que estaba pasando”, dijo él. “Yo no tenía ni idea de cuántas personas estaban pasando lo mismo que yo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expulsado del sacerdocio de nuevo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEn el otoño de 2017, después de que varios feligreses de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe contaron al obispo Menees de la Diócesis Anglicana sobre el ministerio de sanación del Padre Antonio, Menees dijo que él confrontó a Castañeda sobre las alegaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Su respuesta inmediata fue decir: ‘Sí, yo aprendí este ministerio de sanación en India’”, Menees dijo en una entrevista de junio de 2019 antes de declinar hacer más comentarios. “Y yo simplemente dije: ‘No, no lo hiciste’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menees dijo que los sacerdotes con frecuencia ungen a los feligreses al hacer la señal de la cruz en la frente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El tocar cualquier otro lugar – y ciertamente quitarles la ropa – siempre sería absolutamente prohibido”, añadió él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque es común en algunos países de América Latina y en comunidades latinas en los Estados Unidos consultar a un sanador tradicional que usa masajes, el contacto es más para ayudar con músculos tensos o una torcedura, y nunca tiene que ver con tocar los genitales, dijo Mario González, subdirector de Centro la Familia, una organización sin fines de lucro que ayuda a víctimas de crímenes y trabaja con la Oficina del Fiscal del Distrito del Condado de Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo no veo la razón por la que un (sanador) tuviera contacto con esa parte privada”, dijo González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es porque no existe una razón, dijo el profesor de psicología de UCLA, Paul R. Abramson, quien trabaja como testigo experto en casos de abuso sexual civiles y penales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si tiene que ver con los genitales, la intención es sexual. Él está enfocándose en la gente que no va a ir a la policía”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que los hombres se presentaron con la acusación, la Diócesis Anglicana suspendió de inmediato a Castañeda de sus obligaciones sacerdotales. Menees dijo que Castañeda firmó una declaración admitiendo algo de lo que se alegó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los registros del juzgado muestran que otro sacerdote de la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín dijo a la policía que Castañeda estuvo de acuerdo con hacer un anuncio haciéndose responsable de sus acciones en una próxima misa de domingo, pero no se presentó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él fue removido permanentemente de la Iglesia Anglicana poco después de eso, dijo Menees, añadiendo que Castañeda después se retractó de su declaración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La policía de Fresno investigó a Castañeda durante más de un año y lo arrestó en febrero de 2019. El siguiente día, la policía y los fiscales llevaron a cabo una conferencia de prensa urgiendo a que más víctimas se presentaran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las víctimas con quienes se ha hecho contacto hasta ahora (son) hispanohablantes en su mayoría, y son indocumentados”, dijo Jerry Dyer, jefe de la policía de Fresno en aquel entonces. “Parece que son ellos de quien él está abusando.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En la conferencia de prensa, Dyer dijo que los detectives creen que Castañeda ha abusado sexualmente de cientos de personas. Los oficiales obtuvieron ese cálculo al ver la cantidad de gente que se había presentado hasta ese entonces, y multiplicando la cantidad de años que Castañeda ha estado activo como sacerdote en California y en Washington, dijo Dyer después en una entrevista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El feligrés Magaña dijo que él habló con varios hombres que le revelaron que ellos fueron víctimas de abuso después de que se hicieron públicas las acusaciones contra Castañeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Les dije, ¿cómo permitieron?” dijo Magaña. “Querían sanar. Ellos estaban enfermos, querían sanar y así era. Así fue”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11825821 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/060_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/060_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/060_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/060_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/060_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/060_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis es una de las al menos nueve personas que figuran como presuntas víctimas en la causa penal contra Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, o Padre Antonio Castañeda. Castañeda enfrenta a 22 cargos de agresión, agresión sexual, intento de agresión sexual e intento de disuadir a un testigo. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El sacerdote reinventado\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nVarios meses después de que Castañeda saliera de la cárcel bajo fianza, él llevó a cabo una misa de domingo dentro de un espacio rentado en Fresno en su nueva iglesia, Iglesia del Espíritu Santo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de haber sido expulsado de las iglesias católica y anglicana, él fue ordenado como ministro por la World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches, con sede en el Reino Unido. El \u003ca href=\"http://www.celticconvergencechurch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sitio de Internet\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) de la organización dice que está abierta a los obispos, sacerdotes y diáconos ordenados que “han fallado anteriormente en liderazgo de la iglesia”, independientemente de su “historia, estatus y daño”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menees dijo que muchos exmiembros de Nuestra Señora siguieron a Castañeda a su nueva iglesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Él nunca tocó a nadie”, dijo Flor Hernández, quien, junto con su esposo, Javier Hernández, dejaron la iglesia anglicana para seguirlo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández, quien ha recolectado cartas de apoyo para el sacerdote, dijo que ella estuvo en el cuarto una o dos veces cuando Castañeda tuvo sesión personal con feligreses y nunca vio abuso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando él hacía la misa, el lugar estaba repleto”, dijo ella mientras mostraba una fotografía de una iglesia llena hasta su capacidad y Castañeda sosteniendo sus manos sobre la cabeza de una mujer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante la audiencia de juicio preliminar del sacerdote en el otoño de 2019, sus simpatizantes asistieron y se les oyó reírse, burlarse y sacudir la cabeza durante el testimonio de los testigos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para mí, todo esto que sucedió fue celos, envidia”, dijo la feligresa Imelda Cruz después de uno de los servicios de domingo de Castañeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los simpatizantes de Castañeda en repetidas ocasiones han señalado que algunos de los acusadores en un tiempo fueron los aliados más allegados del sacerdote y le ayudaron con su ministerio de sanación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Taylor, el arzobispo para Norteamérica de la actual iglesia de Castañeda, dijo que la organización no hizo una revisión de antecedentes de Castañeda antes de contratarlo ya que él ya había sido ordenado y revisado por otras dos diócesis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor dijo que Castañeda se sometió a una evaluación psicológica y él exigió que el sacerdote fuera entrevistado por tres mujeres que, dijo él, fueron víctimas de abuso sexual durante la infancia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las mujeres que tienen ese tipo de historial tiene un sexto sentido, dijo Taylor. “Ellas me llamaron y me dijeron: ‘No, él no es así. No, él no pudo haber hecho esto’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor sugirió que los acusadores del sacerdote pudieran estar haciendo acusaciones falsas para obtener estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los inmigrantes ilegales pueden llegar a obtener estatus legal si se comete un crimen en su contra. Esto pudiera ser un factor que motive las acusaciones falsas en contra del Padre Antonio”, dijo Taylor a KQED en correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, el abogado de Castañeda, también les preguntó a los testigos en el juzgado si ellos hicieron solicitud para cambiar su estatus legal a cambio de testificar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No está claro cuántas de las supuestas víctimas hayan solicitado la visa U – para víctimas de crímenes que cooperan con las agencias de ley en investigaciones o en proceso legal en casos penales. Pero los defensores comunitarios y la policía han retrocedido, diciendo que al presentarse los acusadores se ponen todavía bajo más escrutinio por parte de las autoridades federales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¿Quién inventaría tal mentira solo para obtener un documento? ¿Quién se expondrá a sí mismo ante casos de juzgado, a revisión de antecedentes penales, al criterio de USCIS (Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos)?”, dijo González del Centro la Familia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los feligreses de Castañeda siguieron acudiendo a sus servicios. Desde que la orden de California de quedarse en casa impuso restricciones temporales a los servicios religiosos en persona, el sacerdote ha estado dando sus sermones a los feligreses que asisten tanto en persona como virtualmente por Facebook Live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tenemos fe en que la verdad va a salir”, dijo Flor Hernández.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Tienes información o casos para posibles historias que quieras compartir con nosotros? Puedes enviar un correo electrónico a la reportera: \u003ca href=\"mailto:ahall@kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ahall@kqed.org | \u003c/a>Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chalexhall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@chalexhall\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por Raquel Arciniega y la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/soytapatia?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">María Peña \u003c/a>del equipo de KQED en Español. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Advertencia al lector: Algunos relatos de las denuncias de agresión sexual en esta historia contienen detalles explícitos y lenguaje fuerte que a algunas personas les pudieran incomodar o resultar ofensivos.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825276/he-played-with-peoples-minds-fresno-priest-left-a-trail-of-sexual-abuse-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Actualización, 8 de agosto de 2021:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde la publicación de esta historia, varios ex feligreses que hablaron con KQED presentaron una demanda en contra del sacerdote de Fresno, Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, y la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín, alegando que Castañeda los había agredido sexualmente. La demanda se resolvió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otras diez personas entablaron \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21012428-20210602094804722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">otra demanda\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) en contra del sacerdote y su antiguo empleador en abril de 2021, alegando que el religioso los agredió sexualmente, o lo intentó. Una de ellas dice que era una menor de edad cuando esto sucedió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda continúa predicando a sus seguidores en Fresno, ya sea a través de Facebook Live o en persona en eventos privados según antiguos miembros de la iglesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde finales de junio, seguía perteneciendo a World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches, una organización religiosa con sede en el Reino Unido, que lo aceptó como sacerdote en enero de 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El estatus del padre Antonio no ha cambiado. Estamos esperando que concluya el proceso legal debido en este caso”, dijo Bruce Taylor, arzobispo del grupo en Norteamérica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda sigue en libertad bajo fianza, a la espera de un juicio previsto para marzo de 2022. Su abogado defensor, Ralph Torres, se negó a hacer comentarios sobre la demanda presentada a principios de este año. Más intentos de contactar a Castañeda no tuvieron éxito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historia Original:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis dijo que él no le podía decir a la doctora lo que en verdad había pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ya habían transcurrido varios días desde que notó sangre en su orina y los moretones en el área de la ingle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El hombre de 40 años, oriundo de Jalisco, México, se había estado reuniendo con un popular sacerdote local en Fresno, Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, quien era conocido con el nombre de padre Antonio. Su familia lo había presentado con el padre Antonio con la esperanza de que el sacerdote le pudiera ayudar a Luis a mejorar su vida, ya que había batallado con la adicción a las metanfetaminas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Venía mucha gente a buscarlo”, dijo Luis, este no es su verdadero nombre. KQED no está utilizando los verdaderos nombres de los supuestos sobrevivientes al abuso sexual en esta historia. “Según los otros, era algo… un don de Dios que él tenía”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En aquel entonces, el padre Antonio era el pastor principal de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, una congregación que ofrece servicios en español de la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín. El carismático liderazgo del sacerdote atrajo a cientos de personas de la comunidad latina de Fresno y se rumoraba que por sus supuestos dotes de sanación se había ganado el sobrenombre de “el padrecito que hace milagros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante las sesiones en la oficina del padre Antonio, las cuales dice Luis que se llevaron a cabo durante varios años, él se acostaba en un banco o mesa para masajes vestido solo con su calzoncillo bóxer mientras el padre Antonio oraba y le frotaba aceite en la piel. La intensidad del masaje era tan brusca que el sacerdote con frecuencia le dejaba moretones, según testificó Luis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él les dijo a su mamá y a su novia que se había lastimado en su trabajo de construcción. Era una explicación que le parecía más fácil, dijo él. Y ahora, en la clínica, el doctor le hizo más preguntas – preguntas que Luis dijo, no se sentía cómodo en contestar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No le dije (al doctor) que alguien me había tocado”, dijo Luis a KQED en noviembre de 2019. “Es difícil que un hombre toque otro… un adulto… toque a otro adulto. Entonces, con qué cara yo iba a decir, pues, me tocó, o…? Es un poco ridículo. Pero (…) porque la gente no iba a creerme lo que yo les iba a decir”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el tiempo, Luis les dijo a las autoridades que fue durante esos masajes – que según el sacerdote eran necesarios para expulsar la ‘maldición’ de su cuerpo – que el padre Antonio abusó de él sexualmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11826082 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41170_IMG_6437-qut_v2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis fue uno de los al menos dos hombres que declararon ante los funcionarios de la iglesia anglicana que el padre Antonio Castañeda les había agredido sexualmente durante años, durante unos rituales de curación que incluían oraciones y masajes que, según el sacerdote, podían curarles de sus pecados sexuales. (Luis es un seudónimo. KQED no está utilizando los nombres reales de los presuntos supervivientes de agresiones sexuales en esta historia). \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Una cura para maldiciones y pecados sexuales\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEn 2017, varios hombres se presentaron con alegatos de que Castañeda había abusado sexualmente de los feligreses durante unos masajes que él les había dicho los curaría física o espiritualmente, dijo el obispo Eric Menees de la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todas las víctimas con las que me reuní al principio eran hombres indocumentados, así que acudir a la policía era algo que les daba miedo”, dijo Meneses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero a principios de 2018, Luis y otros hombres estuvieron de acuerdo en ser entrevistados por detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La otra supuesta víctima dijo a la policía que Castañeda le dijo que se masturbara frente a él en múltiples ocasiones, de acuerdo con información en una declaración a un investigador de la policía de Fresno para respaldar una orden de arresto. Él dijo que el sacerdote le dijo que tenía que ver su semen para determinar la ‘maldición’ exacta o la supuesta enfermedad que lo afligía. En una ocasión, el hombre dijo que Castañeda lo abrazó y le dijo que lo amaba “como un hombre ama a una mujer”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda fue arrestado en febrero de 2019 y fue puesto en libertad bajo fianza al siguiente día. Más de 40 feligreses les dijeron a los funcionarios de la iglesia que ellos o alguien a quien ellos conocían había sido víctima de abuso por parte de Castañeda, dijo Menees a KQED por correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hasta ahora, nueve personas – ocho hombres, incluyendo Luis, y una mujer – están en una lista de supuestas víctimas en el proceso penal, de acuerdo con los testimonios ante el juzgado. La policía dijo que la mayoría de las personas que se han presentado son indocumentadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda se enfrenta a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6951672-AC-UPDATED-COMPLAINT.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22 cargos\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) de agresión, agresión sexual, intento de agresión sexual e intento de disuadir a un testigo. Se esperaba que el juicio de su caso iniciara este año, pero se ha retrasado debido a la pandemia del coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una investigación realizada por KQED encontró que Castañeda se cambió de la Iglesia Católica a la Iglesia Anglicana y, después, a otro grupo religioso, sin pasar por una revisión completa de antecedentes o alguna revisión en lo absoluto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras está en espera de su juicio, Castañeda ya abrió una nueva iglesia donde sigue dirigiendo los servicios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda ha negado todos los cargos a través de su abogado, Ralph Torres, quien dijo que los acusadores del sacerdote han malinterpretado una forma, según él, de sanación tradicional aceptada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esto es algo cultural”, dijo Torres. “Este tipo de masajes de sanación pasa en todo Latinoamérica, México y los Estados Unidos. No hay nada inusual en cuanto a eso. Puede haber un malentendido, y fue algo que no apreciaron”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres dijo que su cliente nunca abusó sexualmente de los feligreses y que “la verdad saldrá en el juicio”. Además declinó la solicitud de KQED de entrevistar a su cliente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas que testificaron en una \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781717/fresno-priest-accused-of-sexual-abuse-of-immigrant-parishioners-to-stand-trial\">\u003cu>audiencia preliminar\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) en el otoño de 2019 dijeron que el sacerdote les dijo que estaban maldecidos, les frotó los genitales con aceite o los convenció de que se masturbaran frente a él para que se curaran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11825816 size-medium\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una de las presuntas víctimas en el caso penal declaró que acudió a esta oficina en Fresno con su ex mujer para recibir asesoramiento del padre Antonio Castañeda y que fue llevado a una sala de conferencias y abusado por el sacerdote. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Algunos dijeron que ellos buscaron la guía de Castañeda durante tiempos difíciles en sus vidas: el fin de una relación, adicción al alcohol o a las drogas y, en un caso, la muerte de un hijo, según información de testimonio en el juzgado. Con frecuencia avergonzados y confusos sobre las sesiones en su oficina, pero con la esperanza de que los pudiera ayudar, algunos feligreses dijeron que ellos regresaron a Castañeda una y otra vez durante años. Otros mantuvieron el supuesto abuso escondido de sus propios familiares, de quienes después se enteraron que también fueron supuestas víctimas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El caso plantea la problemática sobre la vulnerabilidad de los adultos, incluyendo inmigrantes indocumentados, al abuso sexual en la Iglesia, y revela cómo las instituciones religiosas están batallando por responder – décadas después de que saliera a la luz el encubrimiento sistemático de abuso sexual en la Iglesia católica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno se siente como que – ¿acaso todavía soy hombre? ¿O tan siquiera soy lo suficientemente hombre?”, una supuesta víctima en el caso le dijo a KQED. “Yo dejé que otro hombre me tocara. Uno siente como si le hubieran robado su identidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vengo a buscar al padrecito que hace milagros\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAlgunos exfeligreses le dijeron a KQED que ellos creían que Castañeda en verdad sanaba a la gente, razón por la cual muchos han batallado en aceptar las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda vino a Fresno alrededor del 2007 y empezó a prepararse para ser un sacerdote anglicano. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En las misas de sanación, Castañeda colocaba las manos sobre la cabeza de los feligreses y ellos caían al piso o “descansaban en el espíritu” – habiendo sido sobrecogidos por el Espíritu Santo, dijeron exfeligreses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una ocasión, en una venta de artículos de segunda mano que hizo la iglesia, una exfeligresa, Rosalina Rodríguez, dijo que ella se acuerda que una mujer dijo: “Vengo a buscar el padrecito que hace milagros”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez dijo que ella escuchó a Castañeda contestar: “Aquí no hay ningún padrecito que hace milagros. Los hace Dios”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si un feligrés necesitaba sanación, Castañeda lo veía en privado en su oficina, dijeron varios exmiembros de la congregación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynaga dijo que ella y otros feligreses con frecuencia acompañaban a Castañeda a las casas para que él pudiera orar por las personas. Ella dijo que el sacerdote les dijo que algunos hombres necesitaban sanación porque una exesposa o una exnovia los había maldecido.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Decía que sus partes íntimas estaban ‘atadas’ por lo que tenía que masajearlas”, dijo Reynaga, añadiendo que el sacerdote le pedía que saliera de la habitación en un momento determinado de la oración. Dijo que nunca lo vio tocar indebidamente a nadie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11825818 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Reynaga, antigua asistente del padre Antonio Castañeda, dijo que ella y otros feligreses le acompañaban a menudo a las casas de la gente para que pudiera rezar por ellos. El sacerdote le pedía que saliera de la habitación en un momento determinado de la oración. Dice que nunca le vio tocar indebidamente a nadie. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Algunas supuestas víctimas dijeron que Castañeda tenía a otra persona en el cuarto ayudándole durante los supuestos masajes de oración. Personas que presenciaron los rituales de Castañeda dijeron que el sacerdote alegaba haber sacado sustancias amarillas o negras de los cuerpos de la gente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunos feligreses dijeron que Castañeda también les dijo que él era un psicólogo autorizado. Fueron infructuosos los intentos por encontrar algún registro de que Castañeda estuviera autorizado para ejercer la psicología.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jugaba con la mente de las personas”, dijo Rodríguez. “Y les decía, usted tiene cáncer, o tiene esta enfermedad, tiene esta o aquella. Y siempre estaba poniendo enfermedades a las personas, para después tratar de curarlas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los registros del juzgado muestran que un exfeligrés, José Magaña, le dijo a la policía que, en 2015, Castañeda le pidió que lo acompañara mientras oraba por un hombre joven que sufría de drogadicción. Magaña dijo que él vio que Castañeda metió la mano por uno de los huecos del calzoncillo bóxer del hombre y haló sus genitales mientras el hombre gritaba. Magaña le dijo a la policía que él se fue confuso y afectado espiritualmente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magaña dijo que él después le contó el incidente a sus compañeros feligreses. “Y les dije, ¿saben qué?, pasó eso, eso. (Y ellos dijeron), o no te preocupes, es que si lo hace pero es parte de la oración”, dijo Magaña. “Y dije, ‘pero es que no era necesario’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En las tradiciones pentecostés y católica carismática es común que un líder de la fe se anuncie como un instrumento de Dios, dijo la profesora Kristy Nabhan-Warren, presidenta de estudios católicos en la Universidad de Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cada vez que estás ante un patriarcado fuerte o una concentración intensa de poder en alguna institución (…) tendrás abuso”, dijo. “La gente puede decir, bueno, es un problema que solo se da en la Iglesia Católica. Diría que es un problema de concentración de poder y falta de supervisión”, explicó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Una acusación anterior\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAños antes de que alguien hiciera una denuncia en Fresno, la Iglesia Católica en el estado de Washington había lidiado con una acusación de mala conducta en contra de Castañeda. Los registros que obtuvo KQED muestran que un exvoluntario de la iglesia alegó que Castañeda lo había tocado de manera inapropiada cuando Castañeda era pastor en la parroquia San Juan Diego, en Cowiche, a 20 minutos al noroeste de Yákima, Washington, de 2003 a 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En 2007, cuando la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín estaba considerando contratar a Castañeda, ellos solicitaron los servicios de Oxford Document Management Company para realizar una revisión de antecedentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La compañía mandó un cuestionario a la Diócesis Católica de Yákima, el anterior empleador de Castañeda, haciendo preguntas que incluyeron si él, en alguna vez, había tenido contacto sexual en un contexto profesional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El obispo Carlos A. Sevilla de la Diócesis de Yákima \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6957627-Diocese-Corr-AC-May-24-2007-Re-AC-Questionaire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contestó\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés), diciendo que él no podía responder el cuestionario, pero que Castañeda había sido dado de baja de su puesto clerical en la Iglesia Católica por “razones significativas y graves”. Una \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6957642-Fax-and-Memo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carta de seguimiento\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) dio detalles adicionales: Castañeda había violado el sello de confesión.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, Castañeda fue ordenado por la Diócesis Anglicana en 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1NIcyRVlsmmpiyWx6vL-KLy28B0W5ofcPeMBvMv-Hwa4&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el tiempo, la Diócesis Católica prestó atención a la acusación del voluntario de la iglesia, según un memorándum interno que obtuvo KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6952052-Yakima-Investigator-Memo-4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">documento\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés), al que se le han eliminado muchas partes, hace un resumen de la conversación telefónica entre una investigadora privada y el hombre, quien dijo que le tenía miedo a Castañeda porque “había tenido una mala experiencia” con él. Él le dijo a la investigadora que Castañeda había “abusado de su poder” y a veces era “sexualmente agresivo” con él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El hombre dijo que Castañeda le había pedido examinarlo después de haberle dicho al sacerdote que había descubierto un tumor en uno de sus testículos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La víctima le dijo que ya había ido al doctor a lo cual el padre Castañeda declaró: ‘Yo soy doctor y soy responsable de tu salud. Tienes que dejarme verlo’”, dice el documento. “La víctima dijo: ‘el padre Castañeda empezó a tocarme y a decirme que lo dejara revisar mis testículos’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando la investigadora le preguntó si Castañeda había tocado el pene del hombre, él dijo, “Sí, allí y toda el área de mis testículos y luego él dijo que todo se veía bien”, de acuerdo con el documento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El hombre dijo que él se molestó mucho con Castañeda y “le preguntó si ya estaba feliz”, dice el documento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de la entrevista de la investigadora con el ex voluntario de la iglesia, la Diócesis Católica en Yákima \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6929503-Informing-of-Allegation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notificó\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) sobre la acusación a la Diócesis Anglicana de Fresno en agosto de 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero el obispo anglicano de aquel entonces, John-David Schofield, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6954448-Corr-W-Anglicans-Re-AC-July-Sept-2009-4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">respondió\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) diciendo que él había entrevistado a Castañeda y que, “en la medida de mis capacidades, me parece que el Padre Antonio ha sido acusado falsamente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No está claro si los funcionarios diocesanos en Fresno en alguna ocasión dieron a conocer la acusación a los feligreses de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tres personas también levantaron una demanda legal en contra de Castañeda y de la Diócesis Anglicana. Ellos alegan que Castañeda abusó sexualmente de ellos y que el sacerdote y la iglesia violaron su confianza. En la demanda legal se alega que la iglesia fue negligente al contratar y supervisar a Castañeda, lo cual resultó en imposición de estrés emocional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El año pasado, cuando la Diócesis de Yákima publicó su \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774404-Yakima-Diocese-Abuse-Disclosure-List-07-09-19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lista de sacerdotes acusados con fundamento\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés), Castañeda no estaba incluido. El monseñor Robert Siler explicó que eso se debe a que Castañeda nunca fue acusado de abusar de un menor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo creo que nuestro sistema legal reconoce que los adultos tienen más capacidad de decir, ‘no,’ y de hacer reportes y de presentarse”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Siler dijo que la responsabilidad de no volver a cometer la ofensa queda en Castañeda – no en una iglesia que anteriormente lo empleó – y que “hicimos tanto como pudimos” para advertir a la Diócesis Anglicana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No me puedo imaginar que la Diócesis de Yákima tuviera los recursos para andar siguiéndolo con un anuncio que dijera, por ejemplo, ‘No se acerquen a este hombre’”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Yo quería estar bien, así que regresé”\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDe regreso en Fresno, Luis pensó que por fin estaba ganándose la confianza de su familia de nuevo al estar involucrado con la iglesia y al ir a la oficina de Castañeda para los masajes de oración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis dijo que el sacerdote le dijo que como él había estado con tantas mujeres, él estaba maldito y que, para saber cómo es que tenía que ser sanado, tenía que ver su semen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El estaba en la oficina y me dijo: ‘Es que yo tengo que verlo, mi muchacho, yo tengo que sanarlo de eso que usted tiene. Y necesito verlo. Y yo le decía no’”, dijo Luis a KQED, añadiendo que el sacerdote empezó a pedirle que se quitara su calzoncillo bóxer para las sesiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante un masaje, Luis testificó, Castañeda colocó una toalla en su regazo y metió la mano por debajo de la toalla – jalándole fuerte de repente el pene. Luis dijo que él se tuvo que doblar repentinamente del dolor y trató de agarrar a Castañeda, pero no pudo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él le dijo a Castañeda que no le tocara allí.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Luis salió de la oficina, dijo que su calzoncillo bóxer estaba manchado de sangre. Luis dijo que sintió que Castañeda lo había manipulado a él y a otros feligreses que estaban “puros ansiosos de estar bien en nuestras vidas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11826162 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/011_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_BW_05232020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis había luchado contra la adicción a la metanfetamina y esperaba poder ganarse de nuevo la confianza de su familia si seguía participando en la iglesia y acudía al despacho del padre Antonio Castañeda para recibir masajes de oración. Luis dijo que el sacerdote le dijo que, por haber estado con tantas mujeres, estaba maldito. Para saber cómo tenía que curarse, dijo que el sacerdote le dijo que tenía que ver su semen. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luis después testificó que las sesiones con el padre Antonio se llevaron a cabo durante el curso de varios años, comenzando aproximadamente en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Entonces, me metí esa espinita de que estoy mal o estoy cayendo otra vez en lo mismo. Entonces, yo no quería eso. Yo quería estar bien”, dijo Luis. “Volví a ir otra vez a sus sesiones”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero el estar libre de drogas también le ha dado a Luis un sentido de claridad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hasta que poco a poco, me fui dando cuenta de que pues, en realidad, no estaba bien lo que estaba pasando”, dijo él. “Yo no tenía ni idea de cuántas personas estaban pasando lo mismo que yo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expulsado del sacerdocio de nuevo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEn el otoño de 2017, después de que varios feligreses de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe contaron al obispo Menees de la Diócesis Anglicana sobre el ministerio de sanación del Padre Antonio, Menees dijo que él confrontó a Castañeda sobre las alegaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Su respuesta inmediata fue decir: ‘Sí, yo aprendí este ministerio de sanación en India’”, Menees dijo en una entrevista de junio de 2019 antes de declinar hacer más comentarios. “Y yo simplemente dije: ‘No, no lo hiciste’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menees dijo que los sacerdotes con frecuencia ungen a los feligreses al hacer la señal de la cruz en la frente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El tocar cualquier otro lugar – y ciertamente quitarles la ropa – siempre sería absolutamente prohibido”, añadió él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque es común en algunos países de América Latina y en comunidades latinas en los Estados Unidos consultar a un sanador tradicional que usa masajes, el contacto es más para ayudar con músculos tensos o una torcedura, y nunca tiene que ver con tocar los genitales, dijo Mario González, subdirector de Centro la Familia, una organización sin fines de lucro que ayuda a víctimas de crímenes y trabaja con la Oficina del Fiscal del Distrito del Condado de Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo no veo la razón por la que un (sanador) tuviera contacto con esa parte privada”, dijo González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es porque no existe una razón, dijo el profesor de psicología de UCLA, Paul R. Abramson, quien trabaja como testigo experto en casos de abuso sexual civiles y penales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si tiene que ver con los genitales, la intención es sexual. Él está enfocándose en la gente que no va a ir a la policía”, dijo él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que los hombres se presentaron con la acusación, la Diócesis Anglicana suspendió de inmediato a Castañeda de sus obligaciones sacerdotales. Menees dijo que Castañeda firmó una declaración admitiendo algo de lo que se alegó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los registros del juzgado muestran que otro sacerdote de la Diócesis Anglicana de San Joaquín dijo a la policía que Castañeda estuvo de acuerdo con hacer un anuncio haciéndose responsable de sus acciones en una próxima misa de domingo, pero no se presentó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él fue removido permanentemente de la Iglesia Anglicana poco después de eso, dijo Menees, añadiendo que Castañeda después se retractó de su declaración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La policía de Fresno investigó a Castañeda durante más de un año y lo arrestó en febrero de 2019. El siguiente día, la policía y los fiscales llevaron a cabo una conferencia de prensa urgiendo a que más víctimas se presentaran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Las víctimas con quienes se ha hecho contacto hasta ahora (son) hispanohablantes en su mayoría, y son indocumentados”, dijo Jerry Dyer, jefe de la policía de Fresno en aquel entonces. “Parece que son ellos de quien él está abusando.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En la conferencia de prensa, Dyer dijo que los detectives creen que Castañeda ha abusado sexualmente de cientos de personas. Los oficiales obtuvieron ese cálculo al ver la cantidad de gente que se había presentado hasta ese entonces, y multiplicando la cantidad de años que Castañeda ha estado activo como sacerdote en California y en Washington, dijo Dyer después en una entrevista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El feligrés Magaña dijo que él habló con varios hombres que le revelaron que ellos fueron víctimas de abuso después de que se hicieron públicas las acusaciones contra Castañeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Les dije, ¿cómo permitieron?” dijo Magaña. “Querían sanar. Ellos estaban enfermos, querían sanar y así era. 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El \u003ca href=\"http://www.celticconvergencechurch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sitio de Internet\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés) de la organización dice que está abierta a los obispos, sacerdotes y diáconos ordenados que “han fallado anteriormente en liderazgo de la iglesia”, independientemente de su “historia, estatus y daño”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menees dijo que muchos exmiembros de Nuestra Señora siguieron a Castañeda a su nueva iglesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Él nunca tocó a nadie”, dijo Flor Hernández, quien, junto con su esposo, Javier Hernández, dejaron la iglesia anglicana para seguirlo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández, quien ha recolectado cartas de apoyo para el sacerdote, dijo que ella estuvo en el cuarto una o dos veces cuando Castañeda tuvo sesión personal con feligreses y nunca vio abuso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando él hacía la misa, el lugar estaba repleto”, dijo ella mientras mostraba una fotografía de una iglesia llena hasta su capacidad y Castañeda sosteniendo sus manos sobre la cabeza de una mujer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante la audiencia de juicio preliminar del sacerdote en el otoño de 2019, sus simpatizantes asistieron y se les oyó reírse, burlarse y sacudir la cabeza durante el testimonio de los testigos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para mí, todo esto que sucedió fue celos, envidia”, dijo la feligresa Imelda Cruz después de uno de los servicios de domingo de Castañeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los simpatizantes de Castañeda en repetidas ocasiones han señalado que algunos de los acusadores en un tiempo fueron los aliados más allegados del sacerdote y le ayudaron con su ministerio de sanación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Nationwide, the backlog has grown to an unprecedented 1.3 million cases, more than twice what it was when President Donald Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s at stake, says Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington DC, is the credibility of the entire immigration system — both for the individuals whose futures are on the line, and for broader public confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a system that is pretty badly broken,” said Meissner, who ran the former Immigration and Naturalization Service under President Bill Clinton. “So people who are waiting for decisions can be waiting for years at a time. The degree to which those decisions are delayed means that the full functioning of immigration as a system has an incredibly weak link.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Doris Meissner, Migration Policy Institute\"]‘It’s a system that is pretty badly broken. So people who are waiting for decisions can be waiting for years at a time.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the nation’s immigration courts may soon be in for some big changes that not only address the backlog but could also tackle the very structure of how justice is delivered to millions of immigrants fighting for the right to live legally in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland reversed several Trump-era decisions that had made winning asylum nearly impossible, especially for victims of domestic violence or gang violence. He also overturned a policy of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that had stripped discretion from immigration judges over how they handle the flow of cases on their dockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this week, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/27/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-blueprint-for-a-fair-orderly-and-humane-immigration-system/\">“blueprint”\u003c/a> for managing migration, President Joe Biden outlined a focus for improving the functioning of the immigration courts — especially the way asylum cases are decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pandemic compounds backlog\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The epic case backlog results from a convergence of factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration enforcement, which had increased under President Barack Obama, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1242166/download\">ballooned\u003c/a> during the presidency of Donald Trump. 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And they adjudicate the cases of people who claim asylum while already present in the U.S. But under the current system, if someone asks for asylum as they’re entering the country at a border, they have to make their case before an immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"immigration\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third to a half of all the new cases in immigration court in the last few years have been asylum applications. Transferring those to asylum officers could make a big difference in reducing the court backlog, says Meissner, who has been advocating for such a change. And, she says, there are other advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an interview process rather than a courtroom process… and it is more suitable for asylum seekers to be able to lay out their case and the reasons,” she said. “And asylum officers do only asylum cases, so that’s their full training. 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We need to get the law back on track.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That regulation is being drafted jointly by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security and is expected by late October, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musalo also called on the Biden administration to improve training and oversight for immigration judges, who are appointed to the bench by the U.S. attorney general. The fact that asylum grant rates vary wildly between judges suggests that rulings can be influenced by political leanings more than an impartial application of the law, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could have very good rules and laws, but if you don’t have fair, unbiased, competent, professional individuals applying the rules in the law, you don’t solve the problems,” she said. “How can you have a fair game when the referee is unfair?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overhauling the entire immigration court system?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say the need for change goes beyond better staffing and training, and beyond measures to reduce the case backlog. 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