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All of them say they don’t believe any steps were taken to investigate or discipline Stewart, who represented Life West at a prospective students’ weekend and annual conference later in 2023 and appeared to teach there \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcedricstewart/\">until last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women’s lawsuit against Stewart and Life West, one of the largest chiropractic schools on the West Coast, alleges that the college violated Title IX and other protective laws by allowing Stewart to remain on campus. Five accuse him of sexual misconduct at his Hayward office, and a sixth says he assaulted her in a Denver hotel room during a chiropractic conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s illegal for colleges to ignore and sweep under the rug reports of sexual assault and harassment by professors,” says Wendy Musell, one of the attorneys representing the women, who have all chosen to remain anonymous. KQED does not identify victims of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is not a luxury; it’s a requirement, and we look forward to holding Life West accountable for its profound failures in keeping students safe,” Musell continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Stewart nor Life West responded to requests for comment from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250210_Life-Chiro_DMB_00002_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life Chiropractic College West, located at 25001 Industrial Blvd., on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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She says that she asked Stewart for a referral to another local chiropractor who specialized in personal injury recovery but was told he was the only practitioner in the area and had handled multiple similar cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she wasn’t able to find another professional who would take her on as a patient, she started seeing Stewart for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few weeks into their sessions, the woman says Stewart told her that “other stressors” in her life prevented her from healing and urged her to open up to him. She told him about her relationship with her boyfriend, and he told her about his marriage, adding that he was “here for anything she needed.” The woman alleges that during their sessions, Stewart would tell her he loved her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month into treatment, while the woman was lying on her back, she says Stewart moved completely on top of her. He asked her what she would do if he tried to kiss her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The woman] was trapped under Stewart’s body, and his face was inches from her own,” the lawsuit alleges. She “tensed and froze, recognizing that she was trapped under [Stewart’s] body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told him it would frustrate her and her boyfriend, and he replied that he was kidding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022075 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ChowchillaWomensPrisonGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another session, Stewart led her into a back room for soft tissue manipulation, which he says would help his adjustments to hold better. As she laid face down, the lawsuit alleges that Stewart told the woman her boyfriend “was a lucky man” and “made a comment about how good of a view he had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he rubbed lotion onto her legs, he moved his hand up her thigh and between her legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that session, the woman says she avoided Stewart on campus and became increasingly uncomfortable at school. In February 2023, she confided in Jeana Edwards, a department chair and civil rights investigator on campus. She told Edwards about her sessions with Stewart and says she was fearful and uncomfortable around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the woman says Edwards indicated that others had complained about Stewart, she doesn’t believe any steps were taken to investigate him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the other plaintiffs were among a group of four women who reported sexual misconduct together in February 2023. They say they spoke with the school’s dean and Title IX coordinator to provide details about their encounters with Stewart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the women identified other victims who Stewart had been inappropriate toward but were afraid to come forward, and says that she doesn’t believe the school ever contacted any of those women. There are also multiple pending complaints against Stewart to the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that when one of the women reported harassment to the school, its Title IX coordinator told her that it would “violate [Stewart’s] rights” to report him to the chiropractic licensing board or remove him from campus. 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"content": "\u003cp>A former correctional officer at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California’s\u003c/a> largest women’s prison, was found guilty of 59 felony counts of sexual abuse in Madera County Superior Court on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory Rodriguez, who worked for the California Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, was convicted of rape, rape under color of authority, oral copulation, sexual penetration and sodomy, acts perpetrated on nine women. He was also convicted of five misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, raising the total of guilty verdicts to 64.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case received widespread attention after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003230/feds-investigate-california-prisons-where-women-say-culture-of-impunity-surrounded-abuse\">launch of a federal investigation\u003c/a> into abuse allegations inside the state’s prisons. Rodriguez was charged with 97 counts in one of California’s most explosive prison abuse scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR has been plagued by misconduct for years. In December, the Bureau of Prisons \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017117/east-bay-federal-prison-plagued-sex-abuse-scandal-close-permanently\">permanently \u003c/a>shut down the troubled East Bay federal women’s prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a> following years of sexual abuse by prison workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez, 56, was present as the guilty verdicts were read. The four-month trial included testimony from 13 current- and formerly incarcerated women who were targeted and abused by Rodriguez. He pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936442\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1920px-CentralCaliforniaWomensFacility.jpeg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a prison facility surrounded by green fields.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1920px-CentralCaliforniaWomensFacility.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1920px-CentralCaliforniaWomensFacility-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1920px-CentralCaliforniaWomensFacility-1020x816.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1920px-CentralCaliforniaWomensFacility-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1920px-CentralCaliforniaWomensFacility-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial photo from Aug. 25, 2010, of the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, where former correctional officer Gregory Rodriguez is accused of having engaged in sexual misconduct against at least 22 women incarcerated there. \u003ccite>(Wikipedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While relieved that Rodriguez, a 27-year veteran of California’s prison system, would be held accountable, survivors and advocates expressed mixed emotions about the trial. Amika Mota, executive director of Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for incarcerated women and trans people, noted a discrepancy in how some women were treated during their testimonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wondered why some survivors were believed and not others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not letting go of the truths that were told by those survivors, even if there was a not guilty verdict,” Mota said. “We believe them. We listen to them. We support them. And we are committed to exposing other officers that are inside currently harming folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez worked at the CCWF from 2010-2022. Reports of Rodriguez abusing incarcerated women were first reported in 2014, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/gregory-rodriguez-california-correctional-officer-accused-sexual-assault-womens-prison\">a 2023 investigation\u003c/a> by \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>. Instead of reprimanding Rodriguez, the prison punished his victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>, Rodriguez went on to commit dozens more assaults until CDCR began an investigation in July 2022. Rodriguez retired a month later after CDCR approached him about the investigation. CDCR turned the case over to the Madera County District Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018828 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, survivors began to file civil lawsuits against Rodriguez. In one filed by six female incarcerees, Rodriguez allegedly lured them into a parole board hearing room where there were no cameras before sexually assaulting them, the \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> reported. The lawsuit was settled in October 2023 for $3.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been rampant allegations of abuse by prison officials at facilities in California. In January 2023, former CCWF Warden Mike Pallares was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article271879907.html\">moved to another prison\u003c/a> after being implicated in sexual harassment and abuse cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors who testified against Rodriguez said they were put through a grueling process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to tell my story in detail while facing my abuser,” one anonymous witness said in a statement shared by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. “It was awful and humiliating. His attorney tried to paint us as liars despite all kinds of evidence against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez’s misconduct appears to extend beyond the allegations outlined by CDCR’s investigators. CDCR identified \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2022/12/28/cdcr-refers-internal-investigation-into-former-correctional-officer-to-district-attorney-for-charges-of-sexual-misconduct-of-incarcerated-women/\">more than 22 women\u003c/a> who said Rodriguez victimized them. Advocates believe there are more, as some victims may not have come forward because they feared retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2024, the Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation at CCWF — directly referencing the charges against Rodriguez — and at the California Institution for Women in Chino. The ongoing investigation is evaluating whether the state protects incarcerated residents from sexual abuse by correctional employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates interviewed by KQED recognized the importance of the Rodriguez verdict, but they emphasized that there were many more perpetrators flying under the radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want one individual facing these convictions to draw attention away from the systemic crisis,” said Colby Lenz of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. “We will continue to push for systemic change and to hold the system accountable for permitting and often enabling this kind of abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a one-officer problem,” said another survivor, who testified against Rodriguez and asked not to be identified by KQED. “From my experience, Rodriguez is one bad apple on a tree that’s rotten to its core.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said that the verdict was validation of the agency’s decision to hand the case to the Madera County District Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The department resolutely condemns any staff member — especially a peace officer who is entrusted to enforce the law — who violates their oath and shatters public trust,” Terri Hardy, a CDCR press secretary, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez faces 75 years in prison at his sentencing, according to the Madera County District Attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbolanos\">\u003cem>Madi Bolaños\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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I didn’t understand I was being molested,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over two hours at federal bankruptcy court in Oakland last Friday, eight male and female survivors of alleged childhood sexual abuse at the hands of priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland delivered emotional statements on how their lives had been forever changed by their abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statements are part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957801/east-bay-priests-accused-of-abuse-still-active\">ongoing bankruptcy proceedings\u003c/a> for the diocese, which filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2023 following a state law extending the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse lawsuits filed in California. That change precipitated a wave of over 300 lawsuits against the Oakland Diocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the survivors said this was a rare moment in bankruptcy court, which typically only deals in assets and funds, as it allowed survivors to give statements without being cross-examined or having the information used against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an opportunity for survivors to tell their truth and to share their lived experiences so that the court and the parties in the case are aware of the facts that underlie the bankruptcy and the reason there are so many claimants who have come forward,” said Jennifer Stein, an attorney with Jeff Anderson and Associates, which represents over 100 Diocese of Oakland abuse survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statements, made to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge William J. 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Two are dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the accused have yet been found liable in the civil lawsuits related to the bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors spoke about the power church leaders had over the children in their charge and their exclusive access to them.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oakland-diocese\"]Speaker 2 said that as a child, Monsignor John T. McCracken, on several occasions, locked him in the library of St. Mary’s Church in Walnut Creek and molested him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave me something to drink, pulled my pants down, and I felt a stabbing pain from behind,” he said. “He told me, ‘You’ll go to hell if you tell anyone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the speakers on Friday said they were raised by devout Catholic families who worked hard and saved money to send their children to Catholic schools, partly because they thought they would be safer there. And they all described the ongoing harm they suffer because of the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose not to have children, even though my husband wanted one,” Speaker 3 said. “I couldn’t be touched by men. I will always mourn the children I could have had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went on to say that she is currently battling breast cancer, which she said was not detected early because she had avoided having hands-on medical checkups as a result of the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others detailed ongoing problems with substance use, broken marriages, intimacy, weight and self-confidence linked to the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started using and selling hard drugs in 8th grade,” Speaker 7 said, “I was hypersexualized. I’ve had nightmares my entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the diocese proposed paying 345 abuse claimants between $464,492 and $574,637, with a total payment between $160.25 million and $198.25 million. That $38 million variance hinges on the diocese’s sale of property in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the committee representing the survivors filed an objection to the payment plan, calling it “inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The Diocese of Oakland needs to look honestly at its financials and its ability to pay and to compensate people that they hurt,” said Stein, the attorney representing some of the survivors. “That amount needs to show that they understand that they made mistakes and want to take ownership and accountability for what happened, not just pay them enough to go away while they continue on with business as usual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Judge Lafferty heard objections from the survivors’ committee but ultimately allowed the diocese’s repayment plan to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he also required the diocese to make revisions to its proposed payment plan based on further scrutiny of its financial disclosures — including a roughly $106 million transfer of funds that it made about 30 days before declaring bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is going to allow the parties to be able to look into their different perspectives and for some of that information to be added to the disclosure statement so that it is better explained to the people who will be voting on the proposed plan,” Stein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement last week, Oakland Bishop Michael C. Barber said: “We recognize that no amount of money can satisfactorily compensate survivors for the abuse they suffered. Bearing that in mind, we believe the plan compensates survivors in a fair and equitable way and allows the Diocese of Oakland to set a path forward to continue to spread the Gospel, serving the faithful and the poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court last Friday, many of the survivors directly appealed to Barber at the end of their statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s imperative that the diocese do the right thing and provide just compensation,” Speaker 2 said, facing Barber. “I ask you, ‘What would Jesus do?’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all eight survivors spoke, Barber asked to make a statement of his own, eliciting audible groans and prompting many of the survivors to walk out of the courtroom. Jennifer Stein, the attorney, said some survivors viewed it as “too little, too late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Insincere, opportunistic and inauthentic,” she said. “The words don’t match the actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sin of abuse is diametrically opposed to the will of God and must be utterly rejected by those who aspire to follow Christ and serve the members of his body,” Barber said. “For the suffering of each person who has been abused, I offer our deepest unconditional apology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside court, Cathy Pickard, an abuse survivor who had spoken about her experience in a previous court appearance, said she has carried the trauma of her abuse throughout her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ You find ways to live your life, but you live a lie. 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She was denied visits with her family; her phone and commissary access were cut off; she was barred from speaking with her lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was also forced to return to the medical office and interact with the officer who she said had assaulted her to receive necessary care or medications. She said the final words he spoke to her, the day before she was scheduled for early release, were: “he knew where I lived, and he would be up to have a drink with me at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My release was canceled the next morning,” Baker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 women have come forward with experiences like Baker’s since a 2021 \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> investigation revealed that the facility, dubbed the “rape club” by workers and women imprisoned there, had a long history of enabling sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an affirmation that sexual abuse of female prisoners will not be tolerated in this society,” attorney Jessica Pride, who represents plaintiffs in the case, said of this week’s settlement. “The Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice now have 116 million reasons why they will make sure that prisoners will not be sexually abused under their watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Bureau of Prisons said it condemns all sexually abusive behavior and “takes seriously its duty to protect the individuals in [its] custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau “remains committed to rooting out criminal behavior and holding accountable those who violate their oath of office,” the statement continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The global settlement was divided among the women based on in-depth interviews with two former judges, who listened to their accounts of abuse and reviewed their treatment records. Individuals received $500,000 to $1.6 million each, Pride said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is the latest legal victory for women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin, which the Bureau of Prisons said this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017117/east-bay-federal-prison-plagued-sex-abuse-scandal-close-permanently\">will close permanently\u003c/a> after it was abruptly cleared out and shuttered in April. The women are also in the process of settling a class-action lawsuit aimed at protecting women who remain incarcerated elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses speaks into a microphone in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Courant speaks in front of the federal courthouse in Oakland as part of the announcement of a class-action lawsuit over sexual abuse by guards at FCI Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eight former FCI Dublin employees, including the warden and chaplain, have been charged with sex crimes since 2021; seven have already been sentenced, and the eighth is set to go to trial in March on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002790/fci-dublin-officer-pleads-not-guilty-after-facing-new-sex-abuse-charges\">15 charges that could carry a potential life sentence\u003c/a>. More than 20 others who have been accused of sexual misconduct and retaliation, including the medical officer Baker said assaulted her, are being investigated, according to Pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was top-down, from the warden, the chaplain, safety officers, recycling officers. It just was a pervasive culture,” Baker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many women did not come forward for fear of retaliation. Those who did were often sent to the solitary housing unit or lost privileges, like those taken from Baker. Without adequate mental health care, they struggled to recover from the trauma of their assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers carry keys all the time. If you heard the keys coming, there would be your heart — that kind of a heart attack feeling — and just fear because you’re not safe,” Baker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, shortly after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978878/fbi-raids-dublin-womens-prison-plagued-by-sexual-abuse\">FBI raided the prison\u003c/a>, the BOP \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">appointed a special master\u003c/a> to oversee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998682/special-master-slams-conditions-at-fci-dublin-in-report\">operational changes\u003c/a>. Just over a week later, the facility was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">ordered to close\u003c/a>, and more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985645/closure-of-california-federal-prison-was-poorly-planned-judge-says-ordering-further-monitoring\">600 inmates were transferred\u003c/a> to a handful of other federal institutions, many far from their families and legal teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017652 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_0850.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the BOP announced it would make FCI Dublin’s closure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017117/east-bay-federal-prison-plagued-sex-abuse-scandal-close-permanently\">permanent\u003c/a>, saying a staffing shortage, crumbling infrastructure and limited budgetary resources made reopening it unfeasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the attorneys representing those who say they were abused at FCI Dublin are committed to ensuring that there’s meaningful change at the remaining federal women’s prisons. There have been reports that some of the women transferred have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990979/biden-administration-seeks-to-dismiss-lawsuit-over-bay-area-womens-prison-abuses\">faced similar abuse\u003c/a>, and many aren’t receiving the resources they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have a safe place to try to begin to heal, and inside the confines of a prison like that, you’re not safe,” Baker told KQED. “The women who went to other prisons when the facility was closed in April, they’re still suffering sexual trauma, and they don’t have a safe place to try to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the settlement agreement reached last week on behalf of nearly 500 incarcerated women who were transferred from FCI Dublin in April includes a two-year consent decree meant to protect and oversee their care. That will be subject to approval by a judge in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, attorney Pride expects that 50 to 100 more civil cases will be filed against the BOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that when we’ve accepted responsibility for our crimes, accepted plea agreements, the punishment does not include rape and sexual assault within the prison confines,” Baker said. “We weren’t sentenced to that particular punishment, and nobody should have to experience that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dcronin\">\u003cem>Dana Cronin\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She said the final words he spoke to her, the day before she was scheduled for early release, were: “he knew where I lived, and he would be up to have a drink with me at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My release was canceled the next morning,” Baker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 women have come forward with experiences like Baker’s since a 2021 \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> investigation revealed that the facility, dubbed the “rape club” by workers and women imprisoned there, had a long history of enabling sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an affirmation that sexual abuse of female prisoners will not be tolerated in this society,” attorney Jessica Pride, who represents plaintiffs in the case, said of this week’s settlement. “The Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice now have 116 million reasons why they will make sure that prisoners will not be sexually abused under their watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Bureau of Prisons said it condemns all sexually abusive behavior and “takes seriously its duty to protect the individuals in [its] custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau “remains committed to rooting out criminal behavior and holding accountable those who violate their oath of office,” the statement continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The global settlement was divided among the women based on in-depth interviews with two former judges, who listened to their accounts of abuse and reviewed their treatment records. Individuals received $500,000 to $1.6 million each, Pride said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is the latest legal victory for women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin, which the Bureau of Prisons said this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017117/east-bay-federal-prison-plagued-sex-abuse-scandal-close-permanently\">will close permanently\u003c/a> after it was abruptly cleared out and shuttered in April. The women are also in the process of settling a class-action lawsuit aimed at protecting women who remain incarcerated elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses speaks into a microphone in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Courant speaks in front of the federal courthouse in Oakland as part of the announcement of a class-action lawsuit over sexual abuse by guards at FCI Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eight former FCI Dublin employees, including the warden and chaplain, have been charged with sex crimes since 2021; seven have already been sentenced, and the eighth is set to go to trial in March on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002790/fci-dublin-officer-pleads-not-guilty-after-facing-new-sex-abuse-charges\">15 charges that could carry a potential life sentence\u003c/a>. More than 20 others who have been accused of sexual misconduct and retaliation, including the medical officer Baker said assaulted her, are being investigated, according to Pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was top-down, from the warden, the chaplain, safety officers, recycling officers. It just was a pervasive culture,” Baker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many women did not come forward for fear of retaliation. Those who did were often sent to the solitary housing unit or lost privileges, like those taken from Baker. Without adequate mental health care, they struggled to recover from the trauma of their assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers carry keys all the time. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Reader advisory: Some accounts of sexual assault in this story contain explicit details and strong language that some may find upsetting or objectionable.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11882683/jugo-con-la-mente-de-la-gente-un-sacerdote-de-fresno-dejo-un-rastro-de-acusaciones-de-abuso-sexual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Dec. 6, 2024\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this story first published in 2020, Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna pleaded no contest to nine counts of sexual battery and one count of attempt to dissuade a witness. The rest of the charges were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing in Fresno County Superior Court in April, he apologized to the survivors and the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask that they forgive me for what I did,” Castañeda said through a translator. “I did not know of the impact that it was to them, because of everything that I caused them, emotionally, humanly and as a Christian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge had ordered the priest be sent to prison for up to 90 days for an evaluation to determine whether he should be given probation or serve prison time, a process that considers public safety as well as what’s best for the defendant when recommending an ultimate sentence to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the prosecution, officials at Wasco State Prison wrote that Castañeda displayed poor judgment, had impulse control issues and had made poor choices leading to recurring problematic behavior over several years. They unanimously recommended that he go to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, he was sentenced to 365 days in the Fresno County Jail and five years of probation. With credit for time served, he is expected to be released in late December after serving a total of six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally when you have multiple victims over a long period of time and an abuse of authority and power, I would say probation is a rarity,” said Fresno County Senior Deputy District Attorney Kelly Smith, who prosecuted the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said he was surprised when the judge indicated he might give a sentence of probation. But when asked, the survivors in this case said they were OK with the resolution. The important thing was that Castañeda took responsibility, and that the case was finally coming to an end, they said, according to Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see that he’s not above the law, he can also go to jail. I felt like there was justice,” said Maria Estevez, one of Castañeda’s former followers who said she was glad that he won’t be able to serve as a priest while he’s on probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“God will deal with him,” she said. “We don’t even think we have the power or the ability to say this is what should happen to him.”\u003cbr>\nEstevez, who recently rejoined the church, said Castañeda rarely comes up in conversations with other parishioners. People just want to move on, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the survivors had said they wanted Castañeda to go to prison, Smith said he believes there would have likely been a different outcome in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ultimately that’s what swayed the court,” he said. “Ultimately these particular survivors gave the mercy to Mr. Serna that he didn’t give them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, July 23, 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this story was first published, several former parishioners who spoke to KQED filed a lawsuit against Fresno priest Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna and the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin, alleging Castañeda had sexually assaulted them. That lawsuit was settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten more people filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21012428-20210602094804722\">another lawsuit\u003c/a> against the priest and his former employer in April 2021, alleging the priest sexually assaulted them, or attempted to. One of them says she was a minor at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda continues to preach to followers in Fresno, either via Facebook Live or in person at private events, former church members said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of late June, he still belonged to the World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches, an organization with headquarters in the United Kingdom that accepted him as a priest in January 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fr. Antonio’s status remains unchanged. We await the conclusion of due process in this case,” Bruce Taylor, the group’s archbishop of North America, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda remains out on bond, awaiting a trial scheduled for March 2022. His defense attorney, Ralph Torres, declined to comment on the lawsuit filed earlier this year. Further attempts to reach Castañeda were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLuis said he couldn’t tell the doctor what had really happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been several days since he first noticed the blood in his urine and the bruising around his groin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 40-year-old native of Jalisco, Mexico, had been meeting with a popular local priest in Fresno, Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, who went by the name Father Antonio. His family had introduced him to Father Antonio in hope of the priest helping Luis, who had struggled with an addiction to meth, get back on his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people would come looking for him,” said Luis, which is not his real name. KQED is not using the real names of alleged sexual assault survivors in this story. “They said it was something … like a gift from God he had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Father Antonio was lead pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Spanish-language congregation of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. The priest’s charismatic leadership drew in hundreds from Fresno’s Latino community and his rumored healing abilities had earned him the nickname “el padrecito que hace milagros” — the priest who performs miracles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During sessions in Father Antonio’s office that Luis said took place over the course of several years, he would lie down on a bench or massage table wearing only his boxers, while Father Antonio prayed and rubbed oil onto his skin. The intensity of the massage was so forceful that the priest often left bruises, Luis later testified.[pullquote]A KQED investigation found Castañeda had been accused before and has moved from the Catholic Church to the Anglican Church and then to another religious group without undergoing complete background checks — or any at all.[/pullquote]He had told his mom and girlfriend that he had been hurt at his construction job. It seemed easier that way, he said. And now, at the medical clinic, the doctor asked more questions — questions that Luis said he didn’t feel comfortable answering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t tell [the doctor] that someone had touched me,” Luis told KQED in November 2019. “It’s difficult. A man touches another adult … what was I going to say — he touched me? It’s a little ridiculous. Because people wouldn’t have believed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis eventually told authorities that it was during these massages — which the priest said he needed to expel a curse from his body — that Father Antonio sexually assaulted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" 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=\"Luis was one of at least two men who told Anglican church officials that Father Antonio Castañeda had sexually assaulted them for years during healing rituals involving prayer and massage that the priest said could heal them of their sexual sins. (Luis is a pseudonym. KQED is not using the real names of alleged sexual assault survivors in this story.)\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis was one of at least 2 men who told Anglican church officials that Father Antonio Castañeda had sexually assaulted them for years during healing rituals involving prayer and massage that the priest said could heal them of their sexual sins. (Luis is a pseudonym. KQED is not using the real names of alleged sexual assault survivors in this story.) \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A cure for curses and sexual sins\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2017, several men came forward with allegations that Castañeda had sexually abused parishioners during massages that he said could heal them physically or spiritually, said Bishop Eric Menees of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the victims that I met with at the beginning were undocumented men and so going to the police was a scary prospect,” Menees said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in early 2018, Luis and another man agreed to be interviewed by detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other alleged victim told police that Castañeda instructed him to masturbate in front of him on multiple occasions, according to a declaration by a Fresno police investigator to support an arrest warrant. He said the priest told him that he needed to see his semen to determine the exact curse or illness afflicting him. In one instance, the man said, Castañeda hugged him and told him he loved him “as a man loves a woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda was arrested in February 2019 and released the next day on bond. Over 40 parishioners told church officials that they, or someone they knew, had been abused by Castañeda, Menees told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, nine people — eight men, including Luis, and one woman — have been listed as alleged victims in the criminal case, according to court testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6951672-AC-UPDATED-COMPLAINT.html\">22 counts\u003c/a> of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempting to dissuade a witness. His case, which was expected to go to trial this year, has been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation found Castañeda had been accused before and has moved from the Catholic Church to the Anglican Church and then to another religious group without undergoing complete background checks — or any at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he awaits trial, Castañeda has opened a new church where he continues to lead services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda has denied all charges through his attorney, Ralph Torres, who said the priest’s accusers have misinterpreted an accepted form of traditional healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a cultural thing,” Torres said. “This type of healing massage happens all over Latin America, Mexico and in the United States. Nothing unusual about that. You may have a misunderstanding, something that wasn’t appreciated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said his client never sexually abused parishioners and that “the truth will come out at trial.” Torres declined KQED’s request to interview his client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses who testified at a fall 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781717/fresno-priest-accused-of-sexual-abuse-of-immigrant-parishioners-to-stand-trial\">preliminary hearing\u003c/a> said the priest told them they were cursed, rubbed oil on their genitals or convinced them they had to masturbate in front of him to be healed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"One of the alleged victims in the criminal case testified that he came to this office with his ex-wife to receive counseling from Father Antonio Castañeda and was taken to a conference room and abused by the priest.\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the alleged victims in the criminal case testified that he came to this office in Fresno with his ex-wife to receive counseling from Father Antonio Castañeda and was taken to a conference room and abused by the priest. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some said they sought Castañeda’s guidance in times of difficulty in their lives: the end of a relationship, addiction to alcohol or drugs, and in one case, the death of a child, according to court testimony. Often ashamed and confused about the sessions in his office, but hopeful he could help them, some parishioners said they went back to Castañeda over and over for years. Others kept the alleged abuse hidden from their own family members who, they later discovered, were also alleged victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case raises questions about the vulnerability of adults, including undocumented immigrants, to sexual abuse in the church, and reveals how religious institutions are struggling to respond — decades after the systemic cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church first came to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You feel like — am I still a man? Or am I even man enough?” one alleged victim in the case told KQED. “I let another guy touch me. You feel like they stole your identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Where can I find the priest who performs miracles?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former parishioners told KQED that they believed Castañeda truly healed people, which is why many have struggled to accept the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda came to Fresno around 2007 and began preparing to become an Anglican priest. Parishioners said he subscribed to healing practices that included laying hands on the body to cure illnesses and performed cleansing rituals involving white candles, sheets and rubbing oil and salt on the body.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rosalina Rodriguez, former parishioner of Our Lady of Guadalupe\"]‘He played with people’s minds. He would say, ‘You have cancer,’ or ‘You have this illness, you have this or that.’ And he was always putting illnesses on people, so that he could then cure them.’[/pullquote]Under Castañeda’s leadership, parishioners of Our Lady said they witnessed phenomena they still can’t explain: There was the story of the dying patient he brought back from life support, the man who parishioners said levitated off the floor while they prayed for him in an apparent exorcism led by the priest, and the woman whose cancer Castañeda said he had cured — purportedly removing a mass from her body — in front of the whole congregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At healing masses, Castañeda would place his hands above a parishioner’s head and they would fall to the ground, or “rest in the spirit” — having been overtaken by the Holy Spirit, former parishioners said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would form these huge lines for him to massage them and for him to cure them. Because he cured everything,” Rosa Reynaga, one of Castañeda’s former assistants, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, at a church yard sale, former parishioner Rosalina Rodriguez said she remembered overhearing a woman ask, “Where can I find the priest who performs miracles?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said she heard Castañeda reply, “There is no priest here who performs miracles. It’s God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parishioner needed healing, Castañeda would meet with them privately in his office, several past congregants said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynaga said she and other parishioners would often accompany Castañeda to people’s homes so he could pray for them. She said the priest told her some men needed healing because a former wife or girlfriend had cursed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d say that their intimate parts were ‘tied’ so he had to massage them,” said Reynaga, adding that the priest would ask her to leave the room at a certain point during the prayer. She said she never saw him improperly touch anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rosa Reynaga, a former assistant to Father Antonio Castañeda said she and other parishioners would often accompany him to people’s homes so he could pray for them. The priest would ask her to leave the room at a certain point during the prayer. She said she never saw him improperly touch anyone.\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Reynaga, a former assistant to Father Antonio Castañeda, said she and other parishioners would often accompany him to people’s homes so he could pray for them. The priest would ask her to leave the room at a certain point during the prayer. She said she never saw him improperly touch anyone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some alleged victims said that Castañeda would have another person in the room assisting him during the so-called prayer massages. Witnesses to Castañeda’s healing rituals said the priest would claim to pull out yellow or black substances from people’s bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parishioners said Castañeda also told them he was a licensed psychologist. Attempts to find any record of Castañeda being licensed to practice psychology were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He played with people’s minds,” Rodriguez said. “He would say, ‘You have cancer,’ or ‘You have this illness, you have this or that.’ And he was always putting illnesses on people, so that he could then cure them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show one former parishioner, José Magaña, told police that in 2015, Castañeda asked him to accompany the priest as he prayed for a young man suffering from drug addiction. Magaña said he witnessed Castañeda reach his hand up one of the leg holes of the man’s boxers and pull on his genitals as the man screamed. Magaña told police he left feeling confused and spiritually injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magaña said he later told fellow parishioners about the incident. “I told them, you know, this happened. [They said] ‘Oh yeah, don’t worry. Yes, he does it. But it’s part of the prayer,’” Magaña said. “And I said, ‘But it’s not necessary.’”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Prof. Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Chair of Catholic Studies, University of Iowa\"]‘Folks might say, well, it’s a problem with just the Catholic Church. I would say that it’s a problem of concentration of power and lack of oversight.’[/pullquote]In the Pentecostal and charismatic Catholic traditions, it is common for a faith leader to advertise himself as an instrument of God, said professor Kristy Nabhan-Warren, chair of Catholic studies at the University of Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wherever you have an intense patriarchy or intense concentration of power in any institution — Penn State, Michigan State, gymnastics with [Larry] Nassar — you will have abuse,” she said. “Folks might say, well, it’s a problem with just the Catholic Church. I would say that it’s a problem of concentration of power and lack of oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>An earlier accusation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Years before anyone came forward in Fresno, the Catholic Church in Washington state had grappled with an accusation of misconduct against Castañeda. Records obtained by KQED show a former church volunteer claimed Castañeda had touched him inappropriately when Castañeda was pastor of St. Juan Diego parish, in Cowiche, a 20-minute drive northwest of Yakima, Washington, from 2003 to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, when the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin was considering hiring Castañeda, they contracted Oxford Document Management Company to perform a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sent a questionnaire to the Catholic Diocese of Yakima, Castañeda’s former employer, asking questions including whether he had ever had sexual contact in a professional context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla of the Yakima Diocese \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6957627-Diocese-Corr-AC-May-24-2007-Re-AC-Questionaire.html\">replied\u003c/a>, saying he could not complete the questionnaire, but that Castañeda had been dismissed from the clerical state in the Catholic Church for “substantive and grave reasons.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6957642-Fax-and-Memo.html\">follow-up letter\u003c/a> gave additional detail: Castañeda had been accused of violating the seal of confession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda was ordained by the Anglican Diocese anyway in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\">\n\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=1vqpvIacwxNDmaJ6fl5gOk9zZmuTLtN_vOABkQHUNxE0&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The Catholic Diocese eventually looked into the former church volunteer’s allegation, according to an internal memo obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6952052-Yakima-Investigator-Memo-4.html\">document\u003c/a>, which is heavily redacted, summarizes a phone conversation between a private investigator and the man, who said he feared Castañeda because he “had a bad experience” with him. He told the investigator that Castañeda “abused his power” and would sometimes try to be “sexually aggressive” with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said that Castañeda had asked to examine him after he informed the priest that he had discovered a tumor in his testicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Victim told him that he had already been to a doctor at which point Fr. Castañeda stated, ‘I’m a doctor and I am responsible for your health. You must let me see it,’” the document states. “Victim stated that, ‘Fr. Castañeda started touching me and telling me to let him check my testicles.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the investigator asked whether Castañeda touched the man’s penis, he stated, “Yes, there and all over my testicles and then he said that everything looked okay,” according to the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he became very upset with Castañeda, and “asked him if he was happy now,” the document states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the investigator’s interview with the former church volunteer, the Catholic Diocese in Yakima \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6929503-Informing-of-Allegation.html\">notified\u003c/a> the Anglican Diocese in Fresno in August 2009 of the allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Anglican bishop at the time, John-David Schofield, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6954448-Corr-W-Anglicans-Re-AC-July-Sept-2009-4.html\">responded\u003c/a> by saying he had interviewed Castañeda and that, “to the best of my ability, it appears to me Fr. Antonio has been wrongly accused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear if diocesan officials in Fresno ever told parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe about the allegation. Fifteen current and former parishioners — out of the 23 interviewed for this story — said they were never informed a past allegation was lodged against Castañeda. The remaining eight parishioners didn’t respond to follow-up calls about whether they had been informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether parishioners were notified of the allegation, the diocese’s current bishop, Menees, said in an email, “Due to the pending criminal and civil proceedings, I have been advised by counsel to make no comment.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Luis (Luis is a pseudonym. KQED is not using the real names of alleged sexual assault survivors in this story.)\"]‘I started realizing that, well, this wasn’t OK. I had no idea how many people were going through the same thing as me.’[/pullquote]Three people have also filed a lawsuit against Castañeda and the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. They allege Castañeda sexually assaulted them and that the priest and the church violated their trust. The lawsuit claims the church was negligent in hiring and supervising Castañeda, resulting in infliction of emotional distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, when the Yakima Diocese released its \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774404-Yakima-Diocese-Abuse-Disclosure-List-07-09-19.html\">list of credibly accused priests\u003c/a>, Castañeda was not on it. Msgr. Robert Siler explained that’s because Castañeda was never accused of abusing a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our legal system recognizes that adults have more capacity to say, ‘No,’ and to make reports and to come forward,” he said. “Now, we’re very concerned that culturally in the Hispanic community that there is a bigger problem in people’s reluctance to come forward or their inability to say ‘No.’ Certainly we need to pay attention to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Siler said the responsibility to not reoffend lies with Castañeda — not a church that previously employed him — and that “we did the best we could” to warn the Anglican Diocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the Diocese of Yakima having the resources to follow him around with a sign for example saying, ‘Don’t go near this man,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘I wanted to be OK, so I went back’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in Fresno, Luis thought he was finally earning his family’s trust back by staying involved with the church and going to Castañeda’s office for the prayer massages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis said the priest told him that because he had been with so many women, he was cursed. To figure out how he needed to be healed, he said, Castañeda told him he needed to see his semen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I have to see it, my boy. I have to cure whatever it is you have.’ … And I said, ‘No,’” Luis said, adding that the priest began requesting he remove his boxers for the sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During one massage, Luis testified, Castañeda placed a towel over his lap and reached under the cloth — abruptly yanking hard on his penis. Luis said he abruptly doubled over in pain and tried to grab at Castañeda, but couldn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told Castañeda not to touch him there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Luis left the office, he said, his boxers were stained with blood. Luis said he felt that Castañeda manipulated him and other parishioners who were “anxious to be OK in our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826162\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis had struggled with meth addiction and hoped he could earn back his family’s trust by staying involved with the church and going to Father Antonio Castañeda’s office for prayer massages. Luis said the priest told him that because he had been with so many women, he was cursed. To figure out how he needed to be healed, he said the priest told him he needed to see his semen. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luis would later testify the sessions with Castañeda took place over the course of several years, beginning in approximately 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had this gut feeling that I’m bad and I’m falling into the same things again. And I didn’t want that. I wanted to be OK,” Luis said. “So I went back again to his sessions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But being off drugs had given Luis a sense of clarity, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started realizing that, well, this wasn’t OK,” he said. “I had no idea how many people were going through the same thing as me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Defrocked again\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe told Bishop Menees about Castañeda’s healing ministry in fall 2017, he said he confronted the priest about the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His immediate response was to say, ‘Yes, I learned this healing ministry in India,’” Menees said in a June 2019 interview before he declined to comment further. “And I just said, ‘No, you didn’t.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menees said priests often anoint parishioners by making the sign of the cross on the forehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Touching anywhere else — and certainly disrobing — would always be absolutely forbidden,” he added.[aside tag=\"catholic-church-sexual-abuse\" label=\"related coverage\"]While it is common in some Latin American countries and in immigrant communities in the U.S. to consult a traditional healer who uses massage, the contact is more about helping with tense muscles or a sprain, and never involves touching genitals, said Mario Gonzalez, deputy director of Centro la Familia, a nonprofit working with the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office to assist victims of crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see a reason why a [healer] would make contact with that private area,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there isn’t one, said UCLA psychology professor Paul R. Abramson, who works as an expert witness in civil and criminal sex abuse cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s on the genitals, the intent is sexual. He’s targeting people who won’t go to the police,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the men came forward, the Anglican Diocese immediately suspended Castañeda from priestly duties. Menees said Castañeda signed a statement admitting to some of what was alleged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show another priest with the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin told police that Castañeda agreed to make an announcement taking responsibility for his actions at an upcoming Sunday mass, but didn’t show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was permanently removed from the Anglican Church shortly thereafter, Menees said, adding that Castañeda later retracted his statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno police investigated Castañeda for over a year and arrested him in February 2019. The following day, police and prosecutors held a press conference urging more victims to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The victims that have been contacted thus far [are] Spanish-speaking for the most part, and they are undocumented,” said Jerry Dyer, Fresno’s police chief at the time. “That seems to be who he is preying upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Dyer said detectives believed Castañeda had sexually abused hundreds of people. Officers came up with the estimate by looking at the number of people who had come forward so far, times the number of years Castañeda had been an active priest in California and Washington, Dyer said later in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parishioner Magaña said he spoke with several men who revealed they were abused after allegations against Castañeda were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked them, how did you allow it?” Magaña said. “They wanted to heal. They were sick and they wanted to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/060_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Luis is one of at least nine people who have been listed as alleged victims in the criminal case against Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, or Father Antonio Castañeda. Castañeda faces 22 counts of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempt to dissuade a witness.\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis is one of at least 9 people who have been listed as alleged victims in the criminal case against Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, or Father Antonio Castañeda. Castañeda faces 22 counts of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempt to dissuade a witness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The reinvented priest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several months after Castañeda was bailed out of jail, he held Sunday mass inside a rented space in Fresno at his new church, Iglesia del Espíritu Santo, or Holy Spirit Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being defrocked by the Catholic and Anglican churches, he had been ordained a minister by the World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches, headquartered in the United Kingdom. The organization’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.celticconvergencechurch.org/\">website\u003c/a> says it’s open to ordain bishops, priests and deacons who “have failed previously in church leadership,” regardless of their “history, status and damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menees said many former members of Our Lady followed Castañeda to his new church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never touched anybody,” said Flor Hernandez, who along with her husband, Javier Hernandez, left the Anglican church to follow him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, who has collected letters of support for the priest, said she was in the room once or twice when Castañeda met one-on-one with parishioners and never witnessed abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he held mass, it was overcrowded,” she said while showing a photo of a church filled to capacity and Castañeda holding his hands over a woman’s head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the priest’s preliminary court hearing in fall 2019, his supporters attended and audibly chuckled, scoffed and shook their heads during witness testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, all of this that happened was because of jealousy,” parishioner Imelda Cruz said after one of Castañeda’s Sunday services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda’s supporters have repeatedly pointed out that some accusers were once the priest’s closest allies and helped him with his healing ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Taylor, the North America archbishop of Castañeda’s current church, said the organization did not run a background check on Castañeda before hiring him because he had already been ordained and screened by two other dioceses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said Castañeda underwent a psychological evaluation, and he required that the priest be interviewed by three women who he said had been sexually abused as children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women who have that kind of history have a sixth sense,” Taylor said. “They called me back and said, ‘No, he’s not like that. No, he couldn’t have done this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor suggested that the priest’s accusers could be making false allegations to obtain legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Illegal immigrants can become legal if a crime is committed against them. This could be a factor motivating false accusations being made against Fr. Antonio,” Taylor told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda’s attorney Torres, has also asked witnesses in court whether they applied to change their immigration status in exchange for testifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how many of the alleged victims have applied for U visas — for victims of crimes who cooperate with law enforcement in investigating or prosecuting a criminal case. But community advocates and police have pushed back, saying coming forward puts accusers under even more scrutiny by federal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who would make up such a lie just to get a document? Who would expose themselves to court cases, to criminal background checks, to the discretion of USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)?” said Gonzalez of Centro la Familia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Castañeda’s parishioners continue to flock to his services. Since California’s stay-at-home order brought a temporary halt to in-person religious services, the priest has delivered sermons to parishioners who attend both in person and virtually via Facebook Live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have faith that the truth is going to come out,” said Flor Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Do you have information or story tips you would like to share?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Email the reporter: \u003ca href=\"mailto:ahall@kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ahall@kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chalexhall\">@chalexhall\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said he was surprised when the judge indicated he might give a sentence of probation. But when asked, the survivors in this case said they were OK with the resolution. The important thing was that Castañeda took responsibility, and that the case was finally coming to an end, they said, according to Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see that he’s not above the law, he can also go to jail. I felt like there was justice,” said Maria Estevez, one of Castañeda’s former followers who said she was glad that he won’t be able to serve as a priest while he’s on probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“God will deal with him,” she said. “We don’t even think we have the power or the ability to say this is what should happen to him.”\u003cbr>\nEstevez, who recently rejoined the church, said Castañeda rarely comes up in conversations with other parishioners. People just want to move on, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the survivors had said they wanted Castañeda to go to prison, Smith said he believes there would have likely been a different outcome in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ultimately that’s what swayed the court,” he said. “Ultimately these particular survivors gave the mercy to Mr. Serna that he didn’t give them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, July 23, 2021\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this story was first published, several former parishioners who spoke to KQED filed a lawsuit against Fresno priest Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna and the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin, alleging Castañeda had sexually assaulted them. That lawsuit was settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten more people filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21012428-20210602094804722\">another lawsuit\u003c/a> against the priest and his former employer in April 2021, alleging the priest sexually assaulted them, or attempted to. One of them says she was a minor at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda continues to preach to followers in Fresno, either via Facebook Live or in person at private events, former church members said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of late June, he still belonged to the World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches, an organization with headquarters in the United Kingdom that accepted him as a priest in January 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fr. Antonio’s status remains unchanged. We await the conclusion of due process in this case,” Bruce Taylor, the group’s archbishop of North America, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda remains out on bond, awaiting a trial scheduled for March 2022. His defense attorney, Ralph Torres, declined to comment on the lawsuit filed earlier this year. Further attempts to reach Castañeda were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLuis said he couldn’t tell the doctor what had really happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been several days since he first noticed the blood in his urine and the bruising around his groin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 40-year-old native of Jalisco, Mexico, had been meeting with a popular local priest in Fresno, Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, who went by the name Father Antonio. His family had introduced him to Father Antonio in hope of the priest helping Luis, who had struggled with an addiction to meth, get back on his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people would come looking for him,” said Luis, which is not his real name. KQED is not using the real names of alleged sexual assault survivors in this story. “They said it was something … like a gift from God he had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Father Antonio was lead pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Spanish-language congregation of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. The priest’s charismatic leadership drew in hundreds from Fresno’s Latino community and his rumored healing abilities had earned him the nickname “el padrecito que hace milagros” — the priest who performs miracles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During sessions in Father Antonio’s office that Luis said took place over the course of several years, he would lie down on a bench or massage table wearing only his boxers, while Father Antonio prayed and rubbed oil onto his skin. The intensity of the massage was so forceful that the priest often left bruises, Luis later testified.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He had told his mom and girlfriend that he had been hurt at his construction job. It seemed easier that way, he said. And now, at the medical clinic, the doctor asked more questions — questions that Luis said he didn’t feel comfortable answering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t tell [the doctor] that someone had touched me,” Luis told KQED in November 2019. “It’s difficult. A man touches another adult … what was I going to say — he touched me? It’s a little ridiculous. Because people wouldn’t have believed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis eventually told authorities that it was during these massages — which the priest said he needed to expel a curse from his body — that Father Antonio sexually assaulted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" 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=\"Luis was one of at least two men who told Anglican church officials that Father Antonio Castañeda had sexually assaulted them for years during healing rituals involving prayer and massage that the priest said could heal them of their sexual sins. (Luis is a pseudonym. KQED is not using the real names of alleged sexual assault survivors in this story.)\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis was one of at least 2 men who told Anglican church officials that Father Antonio Castañeda had sexually assaulted them for years during healing rituals involving prayer and massage that the priest said could heal them of their sexual sins. (Luis is a pseudonym. KQED is not using the real names of alleged sexual assault survivors in this story.) \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A cure for curses and sexual sins\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2017, several men came forward with allegations that Castañeda had sexually abused parishioners during massages that he said could heal them physically or spiritually, said Bishop Eric Menees of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the victims that I met with at the beginning were undocumented men and so going to the police was a scary prospect,” Menees said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in early 2018, Luis and another man agreed to be interviewed by detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other alleged victim told police that Castañeda instructed him to masturbate in front of him on multiple occasions, according to a declaration by a Fresno police investigator to support an arrest warrant. He said the priest told him that he needed to see his semen to determine the exact curse or illness afflicting him. In one instance, the man said, Castañeda hugged him and told him he loved him “as a man loves a woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda was arrested in February 2019 and released the next day on bond. Over 40 parishioners told church officials that they, or someone they knew, had been abused by Castañeda, Menees told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, nine people — eight men, including Luis, and one woman — have been listed as alleged victims in the criminal case, according to court testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6951672-AC-UPDATED-COMPLAINT.html\">22 counts\u003c/a> of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempting to dissuade a witness. His case, which was expected to go to trial this year, has been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation found Castañeda had been accused before and has moved from the Catholic Church to the Anglican Church and then to another religious group without undergoing complete background checks — or any at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he awaits trial, Castañeda has opened a new church where he continues to lead services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda has denied all charges through his attorney, Ralph Torres, who said the priest’s accusers have misinterpreted an accepted form of traditional healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a cultural thing,” Torres said. “This type of healing massage happens all over Latin America, Mexico and in the United States. Nothing unusual about that. You may have a misunderstanding, something that wasn’t appreciated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said his client never sexually abused parishioners and that “the truth will come out at trial.” Torres declined KQED’s request to interview his client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses who testified at a fall 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11781717/fresno-priest-accused-of-sexual-abuse-of-immigrant-parishioners-to-stand-trial\">preliminary hearing\u003c/a> said the priest told them they were cursed, rubbed oil on their genitals or convinced them they had to masturbate in front of him to be healed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/016_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"One of the alleged victims in the criminal case testified that he came to this office with his ex-wife to receive counseling from Father Antonio Castañeda and was taken to a conference room and abused by the priest.\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the alleged victims in the criminal case testified that he came to this office in Fresno with his ex-wife to receive counseling from Father Antonio Castañeda and was taken to a conference room and abused by the priest. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some said they sought Castañeda’s guidance in times of difficulty in their lives: the end of a relationship, addiction to alcohol or drugs, and in one case, the death of a child, according to court testimony. Often ashamed and confused about the sessions in his office, but hopeful he could help them, some parishioners said they went back to Castañeda over and over for years. Others kept the alleged abuse hidden from their own family members who, they later discovered, were also alleged victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case raises questions about the vulnerability of adults, including undocumented immigrants, to sexual abuse in the church, and reveals how religious institutions are struggling to respond — decades after the systemic cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church first came to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You feel like — am I still a man? Or am I even man enough?” one alleged victim in the case told KQED. “I let another guy touch me. You feel like they stole your identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Where can I find the priest who performs miracles?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former parishioners told KQED that they believed Castañeda truly healed people, which is why many have struggled to accept the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda came to Fresno around 2007 and began preparing to become an Anglican priest. Parishioners said he subscribed to healing practices that included laying hands on the body to cure illnesses and performed cleansing rituals involving white candles, sheets and rubbing oil and salt on the body.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Under Castañeda’s leadership, parishioners of Our Lady said they witnessed phenomena they still can’t explain: There was the story of the dying patient he brought back from life support, the man who parishioners said levitated off the floor while they prayed for him in an apparent exorcism led by the priest, and the woman whose cancer Castañeda said he had cured — purportedly removing a mass from her body — in front of the whole congregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At healing masses, Castañeda would place his hands above a parishioner’s head and they would fall to the ground, or “rest in the spirit” — having been overtaken by the Holy Spirit, former parishioners said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would form these huge lines for him to massage them and for him to cure them. Because he cured everything,” Rosa Reynaga, one of Castañeda’s former assistants, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, at a church yard sale, former parishioner Rosalina Rodriguez said she remembered overhearing a woman ask, “Where can I find the priest who performs miracles?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said she heard Castañeda reply, “There is no priest here who performs miracles. It’s God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parishioner needed healing, Castañeda would meet with them privately in his office, several past congregants said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynaga said she and other parishioners would often accompany Castañeda to people’s homes so he could pray for them. She said the priest told her some men needed healing because a former wife or girlfriend had cursed them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d say that their intimate parts were ‘tied’ so he had to massage them,” said Reynaga, adding that the priest would ask her to leave the room at a certain point during the prayer. She said she never saw him improperly touch anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/025_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rosa Reynaga, a former assistant to Father Antonio Castañeda said she and other parishioners would often accompany him to people’s homes so he could pray for them. The priest would ask her to leave the room at a certain point during the prayer. She said she never saw him improperly touch anyone.\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Reynaga, a former assistant to Father Antonio Castañeda, said she and other parishioners would often accompany him to people’s homes so he could pray for them. The priest would ask her to leave the room at a certain point during the prayer. She said she never saw him improperly touch anyone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some alleged victims said that Castañeda would have another person in the room assisting him during the so-called prayer massages. Witnesses to Castañeda’s healing rituals said the priest would claim to pull out yellow or black substances from people’s bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parishioners said Castañeda also told them he was a licensed psychologist. Attempts to find any record of Castañeda being licensed to practice psychology were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He played with people’s minds,” Rodriguez said. “He would say, ‘You have cancer,’ or ‘You have this illness, you have this or that.’ And he was always putting illnesses on people, so that he could then cure them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show one former parishioner, José Magaña, told police that in 2015, Castañeda asked him to accompany the priest as he prayed for a young man suffering from drug addiction. Magaña said he witnessed Castañeda reach his hand up one of the leg holes of the man’s boxers and pull on his genitals as the man screamed. Magaña told police he left feeling confused and spiritually injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magaña said he later told fellow parishioners about the incident. “I told them, you know, this happened. [They said] ‘Oh yeah, don’t worry. Yes, he does it. But it’s part of the prayer,’” Magaña said. “And I said, ‘But it’s not necessary.’”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the Pentecostal and charismatic Catholic traditions, it is common for a faith leader to advertise himself as an instrument of God, said professor Kristy Nabhan-Warren, chair of Catholic studies at the University of Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wherever you have an intense patriarchy or intense concentration of power in any institution — Penn State, Michigan State, gymnastics with [Larry] Nassar — you will have abuse,” she said. “Folks might say, well, it’s a problem with just the Catholic Church. I would say that it’s a problem of concentration of power and lack of oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>An earlier accusation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Years before anyone came forward in Fresno, the Catholic Church in Washington state had grappled with an accusation of misconduct against Castañeda. Records obtained by KQED show a former church volunteer claimed Castañeda had touched him inappropriately when Castañeda was pastor of St. Juan Diego parish, in Cowiche, a 20-minute drive northwest of Yakima, Washington, from 2003 to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, when the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin was considering hiring Castañeda, they contracted Oxford Document Management Company to perform a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sent a questionnaire to the Catholic Diocese of Yakima, Castañeda’s former employer, asking questions including whether he had ever had sexual contact in a professional context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla of the Yakima Diocese \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6957627-Diocese-Corr-AC-May-24-2007-Re-AC-Questionaire.html\">replied\u003c/a>, saying he could not complete the questionnaire, but that Castañeda had been dismissed from the clerical state in the Catholic Church for “substantive and grave reasons.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6957642-Fax-and-Memo.html\">follow-up letter\u003c/a> gave additional detail: Castañeda had been accused of violating the seal of confession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda was ordained by the Anglican Diocese anyway in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\">\n\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=1vqpvIacwxNDmaJ6fl5gOk9zZmuTLtN_vOABkQHUNxE0&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The Catholic Diocese eventually looked into the former church volunteer’s allegation, according to an internal memo obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6952052-Yakima-Investigator-Memo-4.html\">document\u003c/a>, which is heavily redacted, summarizes a phone conversation between a private investigator and the man, who said he feared Castañeda because he “had a bad experience” with him. He told the investigator that Castañeda “abused his power” and would sometimes try to be “sexually aggressive” with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said that Castañeda had asked to examine him after he informed the priest that he had discovered a tumor in his testicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Victim told him that he had already been to a doctor at which point Fr. Castañeda stated, ‘I’m a doctor and I am responsible for your health. You must let me see it,’” the document states. “Victim stated that, ‘Fr. Castañeda started touching me and telling me to let him check my testicles.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the investigator asked whether Castañeda touched the man’s penis, he stated, “Yes, there and all over my testicles and then he said that everything looked okay,” according to the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he became very upset with Castañeda, and “asked him if he was happy now,” the document states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the investigator’s interview with the former church volunteer, the Catholic Diocese in Yakima \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6929503-Informing-of-Allegation.html\">notified\u003c/a> the Anglican Diocese in Fresno in August 2009 of the allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Anglican bishop at the time, John-David Schofield, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6954448-Corr-W-Anglicans-Re-AC-July-Sept-2009-4.html\">responded\u003c/a> by saying he had interviewed Castañeda and that, “to the best of my ability, it appears to me Fr. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Three people have also filed a lawsuit against Castañeda and the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. They allege Castañeda sexually assaulted them and that the priest and the church violated their trust. The lawsuit claims the church was negligent in hiring and supervising Castañeda, resulting in infliction of emotional distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, when the Yakima Diocese released its \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774404-Yakima-Diocese-Abuse-Disclosure-List-07-09-19.html\">list of credibly accused priests\u003c/a>, Castañeda was not on it. Msgr. Robert Siler explained that’s because Castañeda was never accused of abusing a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our legal system recognizes that adults have more capacity to say, ‘No,’ and to make reports and to come forward,” he said. “Now, we’re very concerned that culturally in the Hispanic community that there is a bigger problem in people’s reluctance to come forward or their inability to say ‘No.’ Certainly we need to pay attention to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Siler said the responsibility to not reoffend lies with Castañeda — not a church that previously employed him — and that “we did the best we could” to warn the Anglican Diocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the Diocese of Yakima having the resources to follow him around with a sign for example saying, ‘Don’t go near this man,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘I wanted to be OK, so I went back’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in Fresno, Luis thought he was finally earning his family’s trust back by staying involved with the church and going to Castañeda’s office for the prayer massages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis said the priest told him that because he had been with so many women, he was cursed. To figure out how he needed to be healed, he said, Castañeda told him he needed to see his semen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I have to see it, my boy. I have to cure whatever it is you have.’ … And I said, ‘No,’” Luis said, adding that the priest began requesting he remove his boxers for the sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During one massage, Luis testified, Castañeda placed a towel over his lap and reached under the cloth — abruptly yanking hard on his penis. Luis said he abruptly doubled over in pain and tried to grab at Castañeda, but couldn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told Castañeda not to touch him there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Luis left the office, he said, his boxers were stained with blood. Luis said he felt that Castañeda manipulated him and other parishioners who were “anxious to be OK in our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826162\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis had struggled with meth addiction and hoped he could earn back his family’s trust by staying involved with the church and going to Father Antonio Castañeda’s office for prayer massages. Luis said the priest told him that because he had been with so many women, he was cursed. To figure out how he needed to be healed, he said the priest told him he needed to see his semen. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luis would later testify the sessions with Castañeda took place over the course of several years, beginning in approximately 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had this gut feeling that I’m bad and I’m falling into the same things again. And I didn’t want that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While it is common in some Latin American countries and in immigrant communities in the U.S. to consult a traditional healer who uses massage, the contact is more about helping with tense muscles or a sprain, and never involves touching genitals, said Mario Gonzalez, deputy director of Centro la Familia, a nonprofit working with the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office to assist victims of crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see a reason why a [healer] would make contact with that private area,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there isn’t one, said UCLA psychology professor Paul R. Abramson, who works as an expert witness in civil and criminal sex abuse cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s on the genitals, the intent is sexual. He’s targeting people who won’t go to the police,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the men came forward, the Anglican Diocese immediately suspended Castañeda from priestly duties. Menees said Castañeda signed a statement admitting to some of what was alleged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show another priest with the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin told police that Castañeda agreed to make an announcement taking responsibility for his actions at an upcoming Sunday mass, but didn’t show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was permanently removed from the Anglican Church shortly thereafter, Menees said, adding that Castañeda later retracted his statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno police investigated Castañeda for over a year and arrested him in February 2019. The following day, police and prosecutors held a press conference urging more victims to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The victims that have been contacted thus far [are] Spanish-speaking for the most part, and they are undocumented,” said Jerry Dyer, Fresno’s police chief at the time. “That seems to be who he is preying upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Dyer said detectives believed Castañeda had sexually abused hundreds of people. Officers came up with the estimate by looking at the number of people who had come forward so far, times the number of years Castañeda had been an active priest in California and Washington, Dyer said later in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parishioner Magaña said he spoke with several men who revealed they were abused after allegations against Castañeda were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked them, how did you allow it?” Magaña said. “They wanted to heal. They were sick and they wanted to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11825821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11825821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/060_KQED_Fresno_RestinSpirit_05232020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Luis is one of at least nine people who have been listed as alleged victims in the criminal case against Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, or Father Antonio Castañeda. Castañeda faces 22 counts of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempt to dissuade a witness.\" 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=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis is one of at least 9 people who have been listed as alleged victims in the criminal case against Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, or Father Antonio Castañeda. Castañeda faces 22 counts of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempt to dissuade a witness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The reinvented priest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several months after Castañeda was bailed out of jail, he held Sunday mass inside a rented space in Fresno at his new church, Iglesia del Espíritu Santo, or Holy Spirit Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being defrocked by the Catholic and Anglican churches, he had been ordained a minister by the World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches, headquartered in the United Kingdom. The organization’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.celticconvergencechurch.org/\">website\u003c/a> says it’s open to ordain bishops, priests and deacons who “have failed previously in church leadership,” regardless of their “history, status and damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menees said many former members of Our Lady followed Castañeda to his new church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never touched anybody,” said Flor Hernandez, who along with her husband, Javier Hernandez, left the Anglican church to follow him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, who has collected letters of support for the priest, said she was in the room once or twice when Castañeda met one-on-one with parishioners and never witnessed abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he held mass, it was overcrowded,” she said while showing a photo of a church filled to capacity and Castañeda holding his hands over a woman’s head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the priest’s preliminary court hearing in fall 2019, his supporters attended and audibly chuckled, scoffed and shook their heads during witness testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, all of this that happened was because of jealousy,” parishioner Imelda Cruz said after one of Castañeda’s Sunday services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda’s supporters have repeatedly pointed out that some accusers were once the priest’s closest allies and helped him with his healing ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Taylor, the North America archbishop of Castañeda’s current church, said the organization did not run a background check on Castañeda before hiring him because he had already been ordained and screened by two other dioceses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said Castañeda underwent a psychological evaluation, and he required that the priest be interviewed by three women who he said had been sexually abused as children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women who have that kind of history have a sixth sense,” Taylor said. “They called me back and said, ‘No, he’s not like that. No, he couldn’t have done this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor suggested that the priest’s accusers could be making false allegations to obtain legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Illegal immigrants can become legal if a crime is committed against them. This could be a factor motivating false accusations being made against Fr. Antonio,” Taylor told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda’s attorney Torres, has also asked witnesses in court whether they applied to change their immigration status in exchange for testifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how many of the alleged victims have applied for U visas — for victims of crimes who cooperate with law enforcement in investigating or prosecuting a criminal case. But community advocates and police have pushed back, saying coming forward puts accusers under even more scrutiny by federal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who would make up such a lie just to get a document? 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Since California’s stay-at-home order brought a temporary halt to in-person religious services, the priest has delivered sermons to parishioners who attend both in person and virtually via Facebook Live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have faith that the truth is going to come out,” said Flor Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Do you have information or story tips you would like to share?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Email the reporter: \u003ca href=\"mailto:ahall@kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ahall@kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chalexhall\">@chalexhall\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Following hundreds of lawsuits alleging systemic sexual abuse by correctional officers at two California state prisons, advocates for incarcerated women are hopeful a newly launched federal investigation by the Department of Justice will bring change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said on Wednesday that it had “significant justification” to evaluate whether the state was meeting its constitutional duty to protect residents of the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and the California Institution for Women in Chino, which for years have been plagued by misconduct scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement references\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936438/former-california-prison-officer-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-against-multiple-inmates\"> the May arrest of \u003c/a>Gregory Rodriguez, 56, who is accused of abusing or raping 22 women in his custody at Chowchilla, the state’s largest women’s facility, for years. The former correctional officer is set to go on trial in state court this week on nearly 100 counts of sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his accusers is Latasha Brown, a Vallejo woman who has been incarcerated at both the Chino and Chowchilla facilities over the past 21 years. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/29/womens-prison-guards-sexual-abuse\">testified \u003c/a>last year at a legislative hearing on sexual violence that she suffered abuse at the hands of Rodriguez and other officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone employed by [California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] is a predator. I’m only saying that the uniform or the suit makes a perfect camouflage for one,” Brown said in recorded remarks from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Justice Department’s announcement of its investigation, Kristen Clarke, who leads the department’s Civil Rights Division, said, “California must ensure that the people it incarcerates are housed in conditions that protect them from sexual abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No woman incarcerated in a jail or prison should be subjected to sexual abuse by prison staff who are constitutionally bound to protect them,” Clarke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation comes more than two and a half years after the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1455\">passage of a state bill\u003c/a> that extended the statute of limitations for victims of sexual assault by police and correctional officers to sue their assailants in civil court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002790 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are incredibly grateful that the DOJ is stepping in,” said Amika Mota, executive director of advocacy group Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As formerly incarcerated people that have lived inside, it tends to be when the feds get involved that we see some action and shift. And unfortunately, in these last couple of years working closely with CDCR and also trying to get access to provide more trauma-informed support to people on the inside, we’ve seen reluctance to allow advocates inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state bill, AB 1455, allows victims to sue in civil court up to 10 years after their assailants are convicted of sexual assault or a crime in which sexual assault was initially alleged. It also gives victims the option to sue up to 10 years after their assailants leave the law enforcement agency they were working at when the assault occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the law took effect, women have filed hundreds of lawsuits describing numerous instances of sexual assault by correctional officers overseen by CDCR, including the Chowchilla and Chino facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits range from allegations of inappropriate searching to forcible rape, and officers at both facilities reportedly sought sexual favors in return for contraband and privileges, the DOJ said in a press release. And among the correctional officers accused of misconduct are some of the very people responsible for handling complaints of sexual abuse made by women incarcerated there, according to the DOJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Prisons were initially built to ‘reform,’ places of ‘penance,’ but they have become places where society’s throwaways suffer a litany of abuses by the ones we hold responsible for our safety and security. Places where a culture of impunity pervades,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her testimony, Brown described the retribution she faced after speaking out against sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since I am completely at the mercy of my captors, I have a feeling of perpetual uneasiness since I know the lengths they will go to cover up their misconduct,” she said. “I was stripped of my property, isolated, surveilled and deprived of communication with my loved ones when I came forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Nancy Skinner, who represents the East Bay, visited the Chowchilla prison with other legislators last January and spoke with women inside about the difficulties of reporting abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No person, … no matter what the actions that they took that resulted in their getting a sentence, should be subject to being assaulted or raped while they are incarcerated. Nobody,” said Skinner, chair of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11999317 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The joint efforts of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus and Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition to shine a light on sexual abuse were cited by the Justice Department for helping launch its investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m relieved that some of our work in the Women’s Caucus has come to the surface, and people are acknowledging the work we’ve done by having this investigation,” said Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry of East Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people say the government doesn’t work, well, it does. Sometimes, it takes a little bit longer than we would like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their work, the Women’s Caucus will travel next week to visit prisons in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Aguiar-Curry added, to learn from other countries about rehabilitation and how they prepare women for reentry into society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations around the Chowchilla and Chino facilities, CDCR plans to intensify staff training with a focus on misconduct and will increase cameras and surveillance at both of the facilities, according to a statement from department secretary Jeff Macomber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sexual assault is a heinous violation of fundamental human dignity that is not tolerated — under any circumstances — within California’s state prison system,” Macomber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our department embraces transparency, and we fully welcome the U.S. Department of Justice’s independent investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation also comes after the closure of a federal women’s prison in the East Bay following years of sexual misconduct allegations and scandals. Seven former corrections officers at FCI Dublin have been sentenced, and the eighth is set to go to trial after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002790/fci-dublin-officer-pleads-not-guilty-after-facing-new-sex-abuse-charges\">pleading not guilty on Tuesday\u003c/a> to 15 counts of sexual abuse of incarcerated women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbolanos\">Madi Bolaños\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Since Santiago was charged in 2022, four lawsuits have been filed against the school district over its handling of complaints against the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation by the school district in 2014 documented multiple complaints Santiago inappropriately touched students, according to \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24512265/response-to-pra-request-w-documents-05-17-2023-1-3.pdf\">records obtained by KQED\u003c/a> in response to a Public Record Act request. 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Almazan recommended Santiago be transferred out of Sheppard Middle School, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges former Alum Rock superintendent Stephen Fiss instructed staff not to call law enforcement in response to the complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Superintendent Fiss did not want me to contact the police regarding this matter at this time,” reads a draft for an investigative report prepared by the school included in the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next to those instructions is a handwritten note reading, “Delete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiss could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former principal at Adelante, Maria Gutierrez, is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit. In a statement provided by her attorney, Gutierrez argues she blew the whistle on Santiago and was terminated after doing what was necessary to protect the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Gutierrez looks forward to all of the legal claims playing out in court because the facts will demonstrate that Alum Rock has an entrenched history of doing what is politically best for them, and not what is best for students and families,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11952597,news_11911375,news_11928350\"]Almazan, the former Sheppard Middle School principal who investigated Santiago, was appointed interim superintendent with the district in March after the previous superintendent, Hilaria Bauer, was \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/east-san-jose-alum-rock-union-school-district-board-selects-interim-leader-after-ousting-predecessor/\">abruptly fired\u003c/a>, according to the San Jose Spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trustee Minh Pham told \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/east-san-jose-alum-rock-union-school-district-board-selects-interim-leader-after-ousting-predecessor/\">the San José Spotlight\u003c/a> that the school board is searching for a permanent replacement, and Almazan is unlikely to apply for the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the victims in the recent lawsuit are under 14 years old, and two are in their 20s, attorney Stewart said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart noted that Adelante and the district are made up of largely Hispanic and lower-income families. 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