Philippine police confident that fugitive ‘son of God’ pastor Apollo Quiboloy still in church compound

Torres, who is leading the raid, said officers found a bedroom in the building seemingly occupied by a male person. Torres’ working theory is that this person was Quiboloy.

KOJC’s lawyer Israelito Torrean described the building as a “Bible study area”, while Torres tentatively described it as a school.

He told reporters that police officers also found other rooms connected to the bedroom that seemed to have been occupied by females, based on items there.

According to a 2021 US indictment against Quiboloy, he and two KOJC administrators recruited females aged 12 to 25 as Quiboloy’s so-called personal assistants, or “pastorals”. 

They allegedly prepared his meals, cleaned his residences, gave him massages, and were forced to have sex with him in a routine called “night duty”.

The indictment alleges the sex trafficking scheme started no later than 2002 and continued to at least 2018. It specifically mentions five female victims, three of whom were minors when the alleged sex trafficking began.

Victims were told that having sex with the pastor was “God’s will” and a “necessary demonstration of the pastoral’s commitment”.

Meanwhile, the indictment also accuses KOJC administrators of bringing workers from the Philippines to the US via fraudulently obtained visas and confiscating all forms of identification, before forcing the workers to spend long hours illegally soliciting money for KOJC outside of businesses across America.

The workers allegedly told potential donors that a California-based charity would use their money to help impoverished children.

However, the funds were used to directly finance KOJC operations and the lavish lifestyle of its leaders, including Quiboloy, according to the indictment.