Jehovah's Witness usher gets 30 years for sexually assaulting boys

[Guest Nicole]

A man who preyed on boys he met while working as an usher at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Sun Valley was sentenced this week to 30 years in state prison.

A man who pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting boys he met while working as an usher at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness in Sun Valley was sentenced this week to 30 years in state prison.

Marcelo Lozano, 34, was arrested July 29 after he was identified in a series of alleged child sexual assaults, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The victims, who ranged in age from 8 to 15, were assaulted over a roughly seven-year span from Jan. 1, 2006, to June 30, 2013, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

Lozano pleaded no contest on Sept. 12 to three felony counts — two for continuous sexual abuse and one for oral copulation of a person under 14 — involving three victims, the district attorney's office said. 

Source: http://canmua.net/world/jehovah-and-apos;s-witness-usher-gets-30-years-for-sexually-749381.html

[HollyW]

On 5/13/2016 at 7:14 PM, Nicole said:

A man who preyed on boys he met while working as an usher at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Sun Valley was sentenced this week to 30 years in state prison.

A man who pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting boys he met while working as an usher at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness in Sun Valley was sentenced this week to 30 years in state prison.

Marcelo Lozano, 34, was arrested July 29 after he was identified in a series of alleged child sexual assaults, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The victims, who ranged in age from 8 to 15, were assaulted over a roughly seven-year span from Jan. 1, 2006, to June 30, 2013, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

Lozano pleaded no contest on Sept. 12 to three felony counts — two for continuous sexual abuse and one for oral copulation of a person under 14 — involving three victims, the district attorney's office said. 

Source: http://canmua.net/world/jehovah-and-apos;s-witness-usher-gets-30-years-for-sexually-749381.html

One of the articles about this said that the elders are the ones who came forward with information that led to Lozano's arrest.  I commend them for reporting this to the police even though Lozano pleaded not guilty at first but later pleaded no contest.