Posted on 11/24/2025 1:15:39 AM PST by Morgana
A pastor in Oklahoma City has been arrested on charges of human trafficking and sexual battery.
Elmer Baca Flores was originally arrested and charged back in April with two counts of lewd acts with a child under 16 and one count of indecent proposal.
Flores is the owner of a 501(c)3 non-profit church called “Ministerio Levantado Adoradores Para Cristo,” where he has pastored for years. The church has been known to meet in various locations, including his home and a public park.
According to court documents, Oklahoma City Police received information accusing Flores of labor trafficking and human trafficking. Two men told police their wives had been brainwashed by Flores. He convinced the women to quit their jobs and move themselves and their children into Flores’ home.
Those accusations led the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) to conduct a deeper investigation. Last month, they brought additional charges against Flores, including five counts of human trafficking and one count of sexual battery.
“Victims told our Agents they were forced to work for Flores without compensation, and he would threaten them with physical harm if they attempted to leave, claiming he was a member of the violent gang, MS-13,” an OBN spokesperson told Fox 25.
“And Flores used his influence as a pastor to spiritually coerce the victims by targeting their religious convictions,” the spokesperson said. “One victim told Agents that Flores gave her a test to prove her ability to resist temptation. During this test, the victim was sexually battered by Flores.”
At one time when the church was meeting at a park, Flores sat down next to one of the victims and told her she needed to come back to his home to have sex with him. Flores told the girl this was a test to “reject the temptation of the flesh.”
The victim told police she was very uncomfortable with the conversation. According to KFOR 4, Flores reassured the girl by telling her she could not get “pregnant with him like she would with younger boys because he was working through God.”
OBN Director Donnie Anderson said in a statement that he is glad Flores will not be able to harm anyone else any time soon. “I am proud of the work by the men and women of our Human Trafficking Unit to get this predator off the streets so he can no longer prey on the innocent and vulnerable,” Anderson said. “And I am grateful that the victims in this investigation are receiving support and assistance.”
ICE must be allergic to OK. We’ve got more illegal chinermen and messycans than we can handle, and ICE is nowhere to be seen.
Not OK.
I’ll bet he’s connected to the cartels.
It’s starting to look as though little raggedy *** “Churches” have moved in on the human trafficking business.
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