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Church Leaders Allegedly Torture Boy And Force Him To Dig His Own Grave (picture)
In what may be the most horrific account of abuse by religious leaders in recent history, a pastor and two members of a Corona church have pleaded guilty to federal charges of beating and threatening the life of a 13-year-old boy.
The church leaders pleaded guilty Monday to forcing the boy to dig his own grave, according to authorities.
Corona pastor Lonny Remmers and two church members avoided the most serious charge levied against them — kidnapping — in a bizarre case involving a 13-year-old boy forced to dig a mock grave as punishment when they pleaded guilty Monday, July 7, to two other felonies.
The case also involved an accusation that Remmers pinched one of the boy’s nipples with pliers as the teen sat in a circle at a Bible study at Remmers’ home. More oddly, some months after Remmers’ March 2012 arrest, the boy’s mother moved in with Remmers and his wife. The case also cost a Corona police corporal her job.
Pretrial motions were scheduled to begin Monday for Remmers, stepson Nicholas James Craig and Darryll Duane Jeter Jr. in Superior Court in Riverside. But the three men agreed to plea bargains. MOREHERE
