Orange Walk Police are tonight in search of a pastor from that municipality. They believe that he can help them get to the bottom of a sinister plot involving the church, money and sex. Preliminary investigations are revealing that Pastor Rafael Perez of Zion Ministries Assembly of God Church, in Orange Walk Town, has been using his position to scam unsuspecting women out of money while attempting to get them to sleep with him. Mike Rudon travelled north and has the story.
This is the church where Pastor Rafael Perez has been operating for the past year and a half. It has been alleged that since earlier this year, Perez has been telling women in the community that he can take them to Canada or Boston where they can work for five months. Alva Daniels is one of those women. She had heard about the offer made by Perez and asked him about it one day. She kept asking him questions, but says he got angry, telling her not to tell anybody about it.
Because I asked him; that I wanted to know the persons in charge there because according to him, there were persons in the U. And he said that he could not give any information about them; their names or any contact number that we can call to know about this. He said that this was a situation that was just going to be between him and the persons that were going. One day she told Pastor Perez that instead of going for five months, she wanted to go for a year. He promised her an answer to that request, and one week after called to say he had one.
Voice of: Alva Daniels. But I played the fool that I was not understanding him. And if I was really sure to go to this trip, I would accept this condition and that I must be prepared to do anything. And I must not tell anybody that there are things that we should not do, but to better our life, we have to do it. Perez offered her the moneyβ¦with conditions. As soon as my husband gets paid, I will give you back your hundred dollars.
I then said to him, how do you want me to pay you back? He said to me, I will be clear with you. I want you to be with me. I then asked him what he wanted. He then said that he wanted us to have something in exchange for the money he was giving me.
