The Hosanna Church Scandal

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In early two thousand and five,
the town of Pontchitula, Louisiana, was

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traumatized when a local church was exposed
conducting Satanic worship crimes against children and animals

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sacrifices. At the center of the
scandal was the church pastor, Louis Lamonica,

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whose horrific crimes took center stage throughout
the nation after confessing to cult like

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rituals involving as many as twenty four
young victims. Welcome to Exposed Scandalous Files

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of the Elite, the Hosannah Church
cult scandal. Hey everyone, and welcome

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back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the
Elite. I am your host, Jim

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Chapman, And before we get into
today's episode, I got some shout outs

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Anderson. And let me tell y'all a

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little bit about Miss Jessica. Miss
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the episode I'm going to bring you
next week that you are absolutely not gonna

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up front is it's going to be an

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episode. Before we dive in,
I want to say, and I guess

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they would call this a trigger warning. This episode will disturb listeners in some

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cases. If you can't handle that
type of content, you may not want

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to listen to this one. But
it happened, it's real life, and

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I'm going to tell you all about
it today. This particular case took place

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in Ponchatula, Louisiana, and kind
of described to you Pontchatoula, Louisiana,

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It's actually only about a half hour
or so from where I'm recording right now.

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It's a very small town, a
very tight knit community. There's actually

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a famous strawberry festival that occurs every
year in Ponchaitula, and what was going

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on there will absolutely shock you.
So we'll start out in early two thousand

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and five, just a few months
before Hurricane Katrina hit and just devastated New

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Orleans and Pontchitula and many other South
Louisiana communities, and a woman in Ohio

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contacted an Ohio Sheriff's office. Her
name was Nicole Bernard, and Miss Bernard

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claimed she fled to Ohio with her
child from Pontchitoula, Louisiana after her child

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told a counselor that they had been
abused at a church. Now, for

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a few weeks, Miss Bernard would
keep calling back. She would just spontaneously

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hang up. She would call,
give him a little bit of information and

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say she had to go and hang
up. She would not reveal names or

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even talk about specific incidents. The
detective she was dealing with finally warmed up

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to her or she warmed up to
him enough to reveal some names and one

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of those names was Louis Lamonica Junior. Now, this apparently got back to

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Louis Lamonica Junior, who was the
reverend at that church, the Hosannah Church

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in Ponshatula, And the very next
day after she revealed his name, he

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walks into the sheriff's office at Livingston
Parish, Louisiana, and he had quite

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a story to tell. So I'm
gonna give you a little bit of here

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history on this guy. Now,
his dad was also a pastor. As

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a matter of fact, he was
a beloved pastor in the town of Pontchitula

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at the Hosanna Church and the church
at the time that his dad ran it,

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and this was the decades leading up
to the early nineteen eighties. It

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was a large church. It actually
had a congregation of a one thousand members,

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which is a lot for a small
town like Pontchitula. So his dad

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passes away, and Louis Lamonica Junior, who was previously pretty disinterested in being

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a church pastor, he decides to
take over that flock. Over time,

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in what you would call maybe a
slow leak, people start leaving the church

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for neighboring churches and congregations. Well, that left an extremely small church,

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to say the least. There was
only fifteen to twenty adults still who claimed

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that church as their what they called
their spiritual home. And later on people

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who did leave that church for neighboring
congregations, they said that the reason that

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they left was Lewis Lamonica Junior was
very erratic and very strange and they just

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didn't feel comfortable. And churches rely
a lot on visitors. They want visitors

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to join their church, so it
didn't help in that respect either, because

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those people thought he was strange,
and indeed he was way more than strange,

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which we'll get into now. By
the end of it, the small

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church have become well known in the
area as a group of really weird people,

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and community members looked at it as
sort of a cult. They had

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no idea how accurate they really were, so eventually, as that congregation shrunk

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to fifty twenty members, they decided
not to allow any new members into the

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church. So Leuis Lamonica, as
I told you, he walks into the

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Livingston Parish Sheriff's office the day after
Nicole Bernard named him as the abuser of

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her child when she was speaking with
the Ohio Sheriff's Department and he tells his

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story and Stan Carpenter, who was
the detective supervisor at that time in Livingston

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Parish, he said that Lewis Lamonica
didn't come to turn himself in. He

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just came in to talk with the
Sheriff's office in Livingston Parish, and Lamonica

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matter of factly told him of having
sex with at least two boys from the

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time they were four until they were
twelve or thirteen, as well as having

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sex with a dog. Stan Carpenter
also said that mister Lamonica did not act

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as though he was confessing to those
crimes. He was just trying to be

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quote unquote helpful, and of course
the Livingston pair of Sheriff's office did not

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let him just walk away. But
during this discussion, this confession, if

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you will, he also implicated eight
other members of that church, and one

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was a deputy sheriff. He mentioned
some cult like rituals involving the rape of

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as many as twenty four young victims, ranging from infants to teens, and

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those took place between nineteen ninety nine
and two thousand and three. Those he

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accused of that time ranged from his
wife to almost every other member in that

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church cult, including the children of
his own. So police do their own

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investigating, and during this investigating they
find some very disturbing information pentagrams on the

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church floor. They discovered the accuracy
of having sex with dogs and sacrificing of

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cats. The prosecutor in that case
was actually quoted as saying he had been

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a prosecutor in rape cases and child
molestation cases, but had never had a

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group accused of doing anything like that. So, of course, after all

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these confessions, La Monica gets arrested
and eight other people get arrested from that

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church. They were described as kind
of central members of the ring, and

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all but one are held without bond. Even that tipster from Ohio, Nicole

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Bernard, was arrested on rape charges
along with her ex husband Trey Bernard.

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Now, during some of these interviews
that they had with La Monica, he

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made some insane claims. He claimed
that he had drank cat that's blood impoured

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it on the bodies of young victims, some of whom were his own children.

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And when the local police talked to
other members of that church if they

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had arrested, they confirmed that.
So of course they do their investigation.

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Eventually this goes to court and Lamonica
takes the stand and when it comes time

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to confess in front of a jury
that he had done all these things as

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he admitted in his confessions and they
had the tapes, his whole story changed.

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He said to the jury that he
falsely confessed to the child rape because

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he thought it would be the only
way to get his wife and children back.

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Obviously that's bullshit. And during that
trial, he had been put on

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trial for four counts of aggravated rape
of his sons when they were eleven or

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younger. He was also the second
among eight church members indicted on charges of

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molesting children to go on trial,
so this involved a lot of people in

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that church. Also, during the
trial, church members revealed some wild incidents,

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including once shaving the head of Lamonica
and calling him a pharaoh. Wait,

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fuck, this is all fucked up. So we're going to go over

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the facts of this case. I'm
reading these straight from the court documents,

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and the facts discuss la Monica and
Lamonica was the father of two sons,

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mL, who was born in nineteen
eighty six and sl who was born in

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nineteen ninety. At this time it
is two thousand and six. At the

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time of the offenses, Lewis Lamonica
was the pastor of Hosannah Church and that

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was in Tangibajoe Parish which is Ponchatoula. The defendant's wife and his sons were

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all members of the church. In
the late nineteen nineties, Lois Mowbray became

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associate pastor of Hosannah Church and in
two thousand and one she became co pastor

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of the church. Now, by
two thousand and three, Lewis Lamonica's involvement

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in the church, including his involvement
as a preacher, declined considerably. Lois,

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along with her husband, a guy
by the name of Jesse Mowbray,

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and Lewis Lamonica's wife, began handling
the finances of that church, and according

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to Lamonica, Lois began to take
over as the person running the church.

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In two thousand and two, Lewis
Lamonica and his wife they began having marital

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problems. In March of two thousand
and three, they separate and Lewis Lamonica

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actually begins living at the church and
for the next two years he actually lived

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there. Now, in two thousand
and two, doctor Milton Anderson, who

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was a psychiatrist. He starts treating
Lewis Lamonica's two boys on a regular basis

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for medication management and just kind of
like general supportive therapy. The boys,

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they're, you know, the mom
and dad are separated and they're getting therapy

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for this. Both of the boys
were diagnosed with ADHD anxiety Intourette's syndrome.

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Now, in March of two thousand
and five, Lamonica's estranged wife contacts doctor

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Anderson and told him it was urgent
that he sees those two boys. Over

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the core of the next two sessions, the two boys revealed to doctor Anderson

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that for years they had been forced
to have sex with adults and a very

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young girl and each other. One
of the boys even had a stack of

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pictures he had drawn that are very
graphic illustrating the abuse that he and his

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brother had suffered. According to both
boys, they were threatened by a church

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member to disclose to doctor Anderson all
of the sexual incidents that they were involved

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and as a result of these sessions, doctor Anderson contacts Child Protective Services CPS.

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Now an FBI special agent by the
name of Thomas Tedder, who was

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working the case when Lewis Lamonica and
Trey Bernard, as well as some other

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church members began living at the church, he discovers that they're no longer church

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services even being conducted, and the
building had really just completely ceased functioning as

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a church. So in late two
thousand and five, doctor Adrian at Zemas,

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who is a pediatric forensic medical specialist, she sees the two boys for

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therapy and also performs a full physical
examination on each boy, and she testifies

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at the trial that both boys told
her they were forced to perform sexual acts

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on their own father and others.
Both boys said they had oral and anal

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sex with their own father at home
and at the church. So in April

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of two thousand and five, Jennifer
Thomas, a forensic interviewer with Child Advocacy

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Center, she interviews the boys in
Hammond, Louisiana, which is right outside

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of Ponchatula. It's just a larger
city, college town. And at that

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trial she indicates that one of the
boys was eighteen years old when he was

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interviewed and as such his interview could
not be used in court. The videotaped

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interview of the other boy, who
was almost fifteen at that time, was

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played for the jury. In that
interview, the boy listed at least a

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half a dozen adult church members,
including his father, who took part in

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that sexual abuse. Now. According
to that boy, the sexual incidents occurred

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at his house, Trey Bernard's house, and at the church. He also

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said that he had sex with a
dog and a very young girl. And

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when I say very young, y'all, I mean infant disgusting. The boy

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also went over his drawings of various
sexual acts, including certain people, including

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himself, Lewis Lamonica, and his
brother. And the boy indicated that some

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of his drawings depicted actual events,
while other drawings were products of his imagination

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and based on what he and his
father would talk about. According to that

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boy, of the fifty five drawings
he had, approximately twenty two of them

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depicted actual events involving sex. In
July and August of two thousand and five,

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that boy had several therapy sessions with
a doctor Allison McCain, who was

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a clinical psychologist. Doctor McCain testified
at the trial that she found the boy

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to have a lot of de pray
Russian, some anxiety and guilt, and

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feelings of worthlessness. The boy also
told doctor McCain that he tried to cope

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with his feelings with the distraction and
repression. He told doctor McCain that he

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had been using these coping mechanisms for
years to try not to think about the

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molestation. He also indicated that after
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Now as we told you. In
May of two thousand and five, the

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defendant walks into the Livingston Parish Sheriff's
office and he asked to speak to a

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detective Benita Sagar, and in a
taped interview with Sager, he confesses to

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raping his sons. He also stated
that at his home in Springfield, which

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is in Livingston Parish, very short
drive to that church, he performed oral

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sex on his son one when he
was four to five years Oh this sick

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sob. He also began having sex
with both of his sons when they were

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five or six, he confessed.
He also indicated that sexual activity involving several

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people occurred at Hoseana Church and based
on that information Detective Sager he contacts a

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tinge of Behoe Parish Sheriff's Office and
a detective, Reginald Bryan, meets with

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Detective Sager in Livingston Parish and Detective
Sager interviews Lamonica for a second time on

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that same day, and in this
second interview, Lamonica provides detailed accounts of

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various sexual encounters of the church.
He actually describes orgies at the church involving

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his sons and teenage members of the
church all having sex with several adult members

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of the church, including Lamonica.
Lamonica stated that most of the time he

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had sex with his sons at home, but that he had sex with them

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as a church as well. So
police search la Monica's house and they find

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a notebook and this notebook contains writings
by Lemonica. They were handwritten and the

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page's detailed repeated incidents of orderly and
anally raping his sons. Lamonica wrote about

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having sex with his dog, forcing
his sons to have sex with each other,

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and raping one of his sons from
the age of three all the way

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up to the age of twelve.
Lamonica wrote that he used money, toys,

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threats, and physical abuse to control
and rape his sons. Now,

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in late two thousand and five,
a doctor Angela Mayfield, who was owner

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of New Beginnings Behavioral health Care and
Hammond. She begins counseling one of the

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boys, and one of the boys
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and other people at the church sexually
molested him. So Lewis Lamonica and

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his wife were in jail at that
time when he was being treated the son,

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one of the sons by doctor Mayfield, and the other son lived with

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his grandmother, who was Lewis Lamonica's
mother. Doctor Mayfield testified at the trial

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that within two months of moving in
with his grandmother, the boy changed his

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account of being sexually abused. He
told doctor Mayfield that he made up all

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of the allegations of abuse and that
someone at the church had forced him to

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say that he was abused and molested, and doctor Mayfield testified that in late

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two thousand and five or early two
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all up, but that despite Rackinni
that she continued to treat him until two

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thousand and seven because he still had
a lot of other problems. Doctor Mayfield

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also testified that after the boy recanted, he still had symptoms that were consistent

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with his history of sexual abuse.
Doctor Mayfield felt his symptoms in fact got

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worse and the boy began using illegal
drugs. You may ask, well,

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he were canton, what's up with
that? That is so common? It's

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unbelievable, y'all. This is this
boy's father, and as disgusting as that

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guy is, the son likely was
feeling guilty about confessing this information, and

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so he thought, Hey, if
I change my story, my dad will

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get out of jail. As crazy
as all that sounds, it happens all

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the time, and it's consistent with
victims who were sexually abused. Now,

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both boys testified at trial, and
they had both written about the sexual abuse

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that occurred. As I told you, one of the two boys, he

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drew pictures of the abuse. Now, they both claimed at trial that the

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sexual abuse never occurred and that they
were forced to make these false allegations.

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They also both claimed that the allegations
of sexual abuse that they had written about

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were not true and their mother told
them what to write. One brother said

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that the other brother also told them
what to write, and Lewis Lamonica he

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testified at the trial that none of
the sexual allegations he had confessed to or

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written about were true. So everybody
starts denying all of this at the trial,

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and it's obvious in Lewis Lamonica's case, why he would deny this Clinically,

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it's not uncommon for victims of sexual
abuse that are related to the person

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being charged with the sexual abuse well
recant statements. Obviously it's bullshit. The

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evidence was overwhelming that this did occur, so Lewis Lamonica at the trial also

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testified he was a pastor of the
church and he made Lois Mowbray his spiritual

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adviser. He also said that he
believed that Lois was a prophet in that

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she spoke to God. Lamonica claimed
that he made the false confessions because Lois

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had control over him and forced him
to speak him write about things that never

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actually happened, but may have been
thought about. According to Lamonica, the

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notion of spiritual thought preached by Lois
meant that if you think something, then

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it happened. Lamonica claimed that his
a strange wife also made him write about

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sexual acts that never occurred, and
that if he did not write Is instructed

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she would divorce him and he would
never see his sons. He also testified

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that Lois made him remain at the
church and work very long hours each day

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with little sleep and for no money. He also had to do work cleaning

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the church, and according to Lamonica, he was told the money he earned

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was being sent to his family.
Lamonica claimed that the room in which he

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was staying inside at the church was
locked at night from the outside with padlocks

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to ensure that he was locked in, and he testified that other members of

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the church hit him. He also
claimed that they shaved his head and made

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him wear a dress in two snakes
while he worked, and these were rubber

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snakes, and his estranged wife would
see him and that when she would see

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him, it would make him feel
very small. He claimed that Lois did

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not allow him to see his wife
and sons, and that if he confessed

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or wrote about the sexual abuse that
never occurred, Lois would allow him to

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go home to his family. He
claimed that Lois told him to go to

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the police and confess about the church
cult involving sexual abuse of children and Satanic

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rituals. He also claimed that Lois
told him that he would have to ask

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police for a deal and that he
would walk out of the police station with

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a deal. Now a twenty four
year old woman named Karen Bushy. She

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testified at the trial that she was
a member of Hazanah Church's youth group for

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several years when she was a teenager. She said that she told the FBI

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police there was no cult activity in
the church and she never saw any children

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being molested, animal sacrifices or Satanic
rituals. She also told them she was

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never forced to have sex. Karen
described it as a church cult only in

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the sense that Lois basically had control
over everything, in control what everyone did,

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and on cross examination, Karen testified
while Lois had control of every thing,

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Lois never convinced Karen that she had
to have sex with La Monica or

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to write about or draw pictures of
sexual abuse of herself or anyone else.

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Desiree Luke, who was twenty three
at the time, testified she was a

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member of the Hosannah Church youth group
for several years when she was a teenager

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and said that she was never forced
to have sex with anyone at the church.

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She also told him there were no
Satanic rituals or colts involving sexual abuse

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of children at the church. She
said that no one at the church ever

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asked her to write about having sexual
people or draw pictures of sexual activity,

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but the evident, y'all was absolutely
overwhelming to the contrary. And let me

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tell you more about Trey Bernard.
So, Trey Bernard and Lewis Lamonica,

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they were the leaders of that church
when a lot of these instances took place,

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and Trey Bernard was the youth pastor
now at the time of the offenses.

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Lewis Lamonica, as you know,
he was the head pastor of a

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church. So Trey Bernard also had
children, and in March of two thousand

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and three, when one of his
children was just three and a half years

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old, Trey Bernard separated from his
wife and he begins living with La Monica

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at that church. Now, when
his child was five years old, she

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disclosed to her mother that La Monica
and Bernard and Lamonica's two sons were quote

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unquote hurting her. And after talking
to Lamonica about the allegations, the estranged

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wife of Bernard believed that Lamonica and
Bernard had been raping and molested not only

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Lamonica's kid kids, two boys,
but her little girl. And this was

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confirmed by doctor Adrian Asmus when on
the stand, Doctor Adrian testified that both

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boys, both of La Monica's boys, confirmed that all of them were having

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sex with Bernard's little girl. Now, in May of two thousand and five,

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Tingebahoe pair of Sheriff's office detective Mike
the Phillips. He interviews Bernard three

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times, and Bernard claims he had
placed his penis in his daughter's mouth and

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placed his mouth on her vagina.
And on June tenth of two thousand and

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five, FBI special agent Joseph Edwards
interviews Bernard, and according to Edwards,

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Bernard claimed he had mated his daughter
from the time she was a year old

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until she was three or four years
old. He claimed he had put his

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penis in her mouth and put his
fingers into her vagina, and had also

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performed oral sex on her. And
y'all, I'm quoting the actual court documents.

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Now, Bernard also lists nine teenagers, including le Monica's boys, that

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he had molested. Now, of
course, in this trial, Bernard racants

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everything just like everybody else. But
there's no racanning all of it in all

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its disgustingness. So, y'all,
this episode is not as detailed as what

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I would typically give you. It's
just disgusting. So I just gave you

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an review of it and I'm going
to give you the verdicts in that case,

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and I'm just gonna wrap this one
up because it's so disgusting and sick.

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I don't even want to talk about
it anymore, to be honest.

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Trey Bernard, who was the youth
pastor of that church, he was actually

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convicted of three counts of aggravated rape
for his role in that church sex abuse

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scandal, and he will spend the
rest of his life in prison. A

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jury convicted Bernard of three counts of
aggravated rape for his role. And that's

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a beautiful thing. What a sick
piece of shit. And the other sick

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piece of shit Lewis Lamonica, who
was the former pastor of that church.

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He was also convicted of four counts
of aggravated rape, including the abuse of

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his two sons, and he was
given for life sentences. And that is

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the story of the Hosanna Church cult
scandal. That one was heavy. I

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