Posted on 05/21/2005 3:46:52 PM PDT by alnick
HAMMOND -- As a boy, family members recalled, Louis David Lamonica never cursed or smoked. He was called to serve the Lord, said his sister Liz Lamonica Roberts on Friday, and he wanted to be a preacher just like his daddy. And so when news broke this week that Lamonica, 45, and seven other members of his church in Hammond were arrested for allegedly participating in, or failing to report, sex acts with children, family members were horrified. It's not that Lamonica has been perfect over the years. To the contrary, family members said Friday that he has been filled, at times, with anger as he pushed them out of his life and his church. But murder, said Roberts, would be easier to accept than the aggravated rape charges facing her oldest brother, who became pastor of the Hosanna Church in 1993 and is now at the center of a growing investigation into what some are calling the cult-like activities of the curious congregation. Some of the alleged activities include the sexual abuse of juveniles and animals, such as dogs and cats, police said.
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Dogs and cats were involved too. Yikes!
Mangy, crippled dogs and cats! Maybe they went to get healed.
Key quote from article:
"It's a cult," he added later, saying simply, "They're bananas."
Why does the McMartin case come to mind?
>>>>>"In the years that followed, Tim and Gwen Normand noted increasingly strange happenings among their neighbors at the Hosanna Church: how they covered their windows with aluminum foil, how they came out at night "making these Indian sounds," and how they generally bickered with the Normands over property rights."
"I went to hire a lawyer, and he said, 'Y'all sound like the Hatfields and the McCoys,' " said Tim Normand."
"The problems continued, he said, citing the mangy, and sometimes crippled, dogs that kept showing up around the church and one incident that Normand described as sounding like an exorcism."<<<<
The preacher was on the outs with his whole family which doesn't say much for him, but those neighbors certainly are talkative. The tips to the police started a little over a month ago, and it would be interesting to check the Normands phone call records.
Details remain foggy
"A couple of jurisdictions received some information," Fitz said of the investigation that began more than a month ago. "And as each began communicating a little bit, and talking to some victims, several alleged victims, from there things started to develop."
For now, however, the details of the allegations remain foggy. Fitz said detectives don't know exactly when the alleged abuse began or how often it occurred.
Or if it occurred.
Anyone know of anything like this that REALLY happened?
"Some of the alleged activities include the sexual abuse of...cats, police said."
I don't think so!
Dittos in #5 & #6.
Shades of the 90s Wenatchee, WA child abuse scandal. See http://www.truthinjustice.org/victims-fury.htm
Does PETA know about this?
Blowing the lid off the McMartin fiasco was the ONLY decent "journalism" that Mike Wallace ever did...he's a despicable pukeface, but he dug in that one time and the correction process got kickstarted.
I think there's more to this than the McMartin case.
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