CALIFORNIA
KABC
[with video]
John Gregory and Rob McMillan
CORONA, Calif. (KABC) — A church pastor and two other men are accused of kidnapping and abusing a 13-year-old boy left in their care. The pastor runs a group home in Corona. The three men were arraigned in Riverside Wednesday.
Police say the three men were asked by a mother to give her 13-year-old son “guidance.” The pastor and two of his followers could face years behind bars for their alleged actions.
Police say the boy’s mother, 30, brought the 13-year-old to a men’s home in Corona run by Heart of Worship Community Church on March 18, asking the people there to discipline her son. Police said she had hoped the people running the home would help discipline her son, who had been misbehaving.
Police say that’s when Pastor Lonnie Remmers, 54, ordered two church members, Nick Craig, 22, and Darryll Jeter, 28, to drive the boy more than 100 miles north to Barstow.
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