Corona: Pastor, Two Others Charged in Abuse Case, The Press-Enterprise , April 5, 2012

Corona: Pastor, Two Others Charged in Abuse Case

The Press-Enterprise
April 5, 2012

http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/corona/corona-headlines-index/20120404-corona-pastor-two-others-charged-in-abuse-case.ece

Darryll Jeter, left, Nicholas Craig, middle, and Lonny Remmers, pastor of the Heart of Worship church in Corona, are arraigned in a Riverside courtroom on Wednesday. The three are charged in the alleged abuse of a 13-year-old boy.

Darryll Jeter, left, Nicholas Craig, middle, and Lonny Remmers, pastor of the Heart of Worship church in Corona, are arraigned in a Riverside courtroom on Wednesday. The three are charged in the alleged abuse of a 13-year-old boy.

A Corona pastor accused of assaulting a 13-year-old boy with pliers and directing two church members to discipline the youth has served time in federal prison for an investment fraud scheme.

The two church members drove the boy to the desert March 18, forced him to dig a grave, threw dirt on him and then beat him with a belt, according to authorities.

On Wednesday, the pastor, Lonny Lee Remmers, 54, was charged with felony assault and inflicting injury on a child. The other men — Nicholas Craig, 22, and Darryl Duane Jeter Jr., 28 — were charged with kidnapping, assault and other felonies.