CALIFORNIA
10 News
Posted: 07/22/2013
Mitch Blacher
SAN DIEGO – Team 10 has obtained a video that some people say helps to prove Jehovah’s Witnesses covered up child abuse for years.
In a video deposition taken in 2011 during a civil lawsuit, admitted serial pedophile Gonzalo Campos said he abused several children in his San Diego congregation from the early 1980’s through the mid 90’s.
“I did abuse him,” said Campos in the video. “I touched his private parts.”
((See the video deposition today on 10News At 5:00.))
His on-camera admissions and a confidential settlement worth millions, may have to be enough for his victims. The Jehovah’s Witnesses never told police about Campos, who was a church elder. He’s never been charged with a crime and he may never see the inside of a prison cell. He has fled the country and now is in Mexico. He also still is a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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