Eva García de Joaquín protected, covered up, and facilitated the abuse of dozens of minors and women, victims of her husband, Samuel Joaquín Flores, and her son, Naasón Joaquín García, two of the three top leaders of the Church of the Light of the World, while the woman enriched herself and lived surrounded by luxury, at the expense of the congregation’s faithful.
According to a report related to the recently announced sex trafficking and organized crime case against Naasón, his mother, and four others, Eva García was one of the groomers or preparers for her husband, Samuel Joaquín Flores, leader of La Luz del Mundo between 1964 and 2014.
“Eva García de Joaquín is the longest-serving member of the alleged conspiracy. As the wife of Samuel Joaquín Flores and mother of Naasón Joaquín García, García de Joaquín continuously participated in the exploitation of the LLDM church community,” the document states.
According to the United States, the woman personally convinced or forced two minors to engage in sexual acts with her husband. In one of the cases, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges, García physically subdued one of the girls so that her husband could rape her.
Eva García worked alongside Rosa Sosa, another of her husband’s groomers, who also worked for Naasón Joaquín García, son of Samuel Joaquín and Eva García, starting in 2014 when she assumed leadership of the church.
According to the case against Joaquín, opened in Manhattan federal court in New York, Eva García, Rosa Sosa, and Azalea Rangel Meléndez, Naasón Joaquín’s second groomer, also arranged for several victims—children and women—to travel with Samuel and Naasón to various countries, including the United States, Mexico, Malaysia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Poland, South Africa, and Australia.
This was so that the two apostles could abuse them whenever they wanted.
They even made the victims travel with less than $10,000 in cash each, in order to move and launder millions of dollars they obtained from the tithes and offerings of members of the La Luz del Mundo congregation.
