FLORIDA
News-Journal
By Mark I. Johnson
STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, November 1, 2012
ORLANDO – A day after the child accusers of an Ormond Beach pastor testified behind closed doors, a similar tale of sexual abuse came to light in a federal courtroom by a woman who said she was a victim when she was young.
A 22-year-old Connecticut woman testified in open court Thursday morning that self-proclaimed evangelist Luis E. Morales inappropriately touched her during an overnight stay at his home when she was 8 years old.
Morales, 58, is on trial on five federal charges of child sex trafficking and transporting children across state lines for the purpose of sexual activity and molesting them in November 2009 and December 2010.
The woman, who The News-Journal is not naming because of her claim she was a victim of sexual abuse, refused to look at Morales during her testimony, although she did identify him as the same man who “pinched her chest and buttocks” during games of hide and seek.
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