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Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Pastor Guillermo Quintanilla Accused of Sexually Assaulting Young Girls

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Guillermo Quintanilla, pastor of El Shadai Church of God (which rented space in Reformation Lutheran Church’s building) in Canal Winchester, Ohio, has been charged with “rape, sexual battery and two counts of gross sexual imposition.”

Cleveland.com reports:

The pastor of a church near Columbus is being held in jail on a $1 million bond after being accused of sexually assaulting three young girls, reports say.

Guillermo Quintanilla, 47, pastor at El Shadai Church of God in Canal Winchester, is charged with rape, sexual battery and two counts of gross sexual imposition, all felonies, according to 10tv.com.

Court documents show a mother told investigators that Quintanilla assaulted her daughter a few times per week over four years, beginning when her daughter was 8 years old, WSYX Channel 6 reports.

Two other victims came forward with accusations against Quintanilla after police began investigating, with one being abused beginning at age 6, reports say.

Quintanilla is accused of pushing one of the victims to the floor of his office in an attempt to keep her from telling anyone about the assaults. He reportedly hit her in the face several times, threatened to rape her, and to kill her and her mother, according to WCMH Channel 4.

The pastor denied assaulting the girls but told police if he touched the girls’ private parts, it was by accident, WCMH reports.

A September 5, 2018 Columbus Dispatch report states:

A Columbus pastor has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing three preteen girls at his East Side church.

Guillermo Quintanilla, 48, entered an Alford plea in Franklin County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday to three counts of gross sexual imposition.

The sentence, imposed by Judge Laurel Beatty Blunt, was recommended by prosecuting and defense attorneys as part of a plea agreement. In an Alford plea, a defendant doesn’t admit guilt, but concedes that prosecutors have enough evidence to gain a conviction.

Quintanilla reached the plea agreement as jury selection was about to begin for a trial on the charges. Six other counts of gross sexual imposition, as well as one count each of rape and sexual battery were dismissed as part of the deal.

After he is released from prison, he will be required to register as a sex offender every six months for 25 years.

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    Yulya Sevelova

    This situation reminds me of a case here in L.A., where the church leader and his father before him engaged in these crimes. They even had women from the church helping them ! So revolting !! It’s these buttwipes that could end the freedom of religion contained in the Constitution. Which these maddened bastards don’t care about.

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    Brian Vanderlip

    “The pastor denied assaulting the girls but told police if he touched the girls’ private parts, it was by accident…”
    Oh, well then…. a misunderstanding! And when this adult man of Jesus, congregation leader, forced his adult penis into a child’s body, it had to be an accident as well, a confusion of misunderstandings and Satan trying to destroy the Christian message!
    In my view, if it is Satan revealing these facts, then Satan should be awarded a medal of honor for telling the truth about the pastor, for forcing the pew-blinded congregation to accept the fact, the simple fact.
    The trouble with so many preachers is that they have no finesse: Sure, they are hired to harm others and themselves for Jesus’ sake but they go toooo far! They abuse those in their care and in so doing, they reveal the heart of the gospel to people who might prefer to stay in denial, black and white thinkers who appreciate being in the dark, saved, baptized and freed from having to look at the obvious truth.
    Christian pastors: Please please just continue to harm by disrepecting women and children in sermons, by condemning all who enter your church with being rotten hearts in need of magic Jesus and taking their money for your sado-masochistic behaviours with people. Harm the men. women and children with your words. But stop going far beyond your business of harming all for Jesus! You are a sick pastor, a sick man who hides his illness behind a pulpit. You coward, unwilling to get help for what you know is harm. You perfect example of the bankrupt faith you espouse….

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