Jeffery Daniels Valderrama

American. Consecrated layman of the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana from 1985 to 2001. Daniels led Marian Groups of boys, aged 12 to 16, at San Borja, taking them on mission trips, and teaching religion at Colegio San Pedro.

The 2017 report commissioned by the Sodalicio described Daniels as the group’s most egregious abuser. Between 1985 and 1997, he allegedly abused twelve boys and young men between 1985 and 1997. The abuses ranged from fondling to repeated anal penetration of boys aged 10 to 17.  A victim, A.U., said Daniels abused him for about two years from age 14, and two other witnesses describe touching on mission trips in Arequipa.

Daniels had been reported to his superiors at the SCV in 1997, and he admitted abusing three young men. Luis Figari and Germán Doig neither expelled him nor reported him to law enforcement. Instead, he was isolated for three years at the San Bartolo formation house, while other members were told he was on retreat. Doig reportedly said he would deal with the victims’ families himself.

After Doig’s death in 2001, the Sodalicio’s Superior Council authorized Daniels’ departure from the group. He moved to the United States that year.

In February 2017, the Sodalicio’s Superior General delivered the group’s own commissioned report to Lima’s public prosecutor. It documented alleged sexual abuses perpetrated by Daniels, Luis Fernando Figari, Germán Doig, and Virgilio Levaggi against 19 minors and 10 adults.

In December 2017, Peruvian prosecutors formally charged Jeffery Daniels (by then living in the United States) with multiple counts of abuse. The charges, documented in court filings and reported by the Chicago Tribune, included sexual, physical, and psychological abuse and conspiracy to cover up these crimes. Peru intended to seek Daniels’ extradition, but once the case was closed by Peruvian authorities (in 2019, without indictments), extradition efforts stopped.

Peru closed its criminal cases against Daniels and the others in 2024.

As of 2017-2018, Daniels reportedly was living in Antioch, Illinois with his wife and children. Sodalicio said that in 2016, it had reported his whereabouts to Illinois child-welfare authorities and to the archdiocese of Chicago.