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Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, along with his co-accused, take  their oaths during the Senate hearing of the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality in Pasay City on October 23, 2024. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

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Senate Hearing on Quiboloy Abuses

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172968668195820241023-ph-senate-kojc-quiboloy-MD--17.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, along with his co-accused, take  their oaths during the Senate hearing of the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality in Pasay City on October 23, 2024. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, along with his co-accused, take  their oaths during the Senate hearing of the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality in Pasay City on October 23, 2024. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — A former key official of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy&#x27;s Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) on Wednesday said children were &quot;recruited and trafficked&quot; to roam around Metro Manila during &quot;caroling season&quot; to meet a quota of P15 million for the month of December.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/10/23/ex-kojc-member-recalls-sexual-abuse-months-long-fasting-to-slowly-kill-me-1205">• Ex-KOJC member recalls sexual abuse, months-long fasting &#x27;to slowly kill me&#x27;</a></div><p>Teresita Valdehueza, who was with KOJC from 1980 until she left in 1999, admitted to the Senate Committee on Women that she was the mastermind behind the trafficking of children from Visayas and Mindanao to be deployed as Christmas carolers in the capital region.</p><p>&quot;We recruited and trafficked young people from Mindanao, Visayas to carol in the provinces of Luzon and in the National Capital Region cities,&quot; she said.</p><p>&quot;Caroling really had become until now one of the sources of funds for the ministry. In 1988 I was able to join here in Manila and we were only doing caroling in the cities of NCR... I was [later] given the opportunity to lead a fundraising, I made it nationwide. I actually organized the nationwide caroling,&quot;Valdehueza also said.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/10/23/eye-to-eye-with-quiboloy-hontiveros-asks-did-you-sexually-abuse-kojc-women-children-1344">• Eye to eye with Quiboloy, Hontiveros asks: &#x27;Did you sexually abuse KOJC women, children?&#x27;</a></div><p>She later assigned leaders in every province &quot;overseeing 70 to 100 carolers including adults who would be cooking and washing their clothes.&quot;</p><p>&quot;In the NCR alone we had I think 13 leaders overseeing 20 to 30 members also,&quot; she said.</p><p>During December, children carolers would be deployed as early as 8 a.m until 10 p.m. to meet a quota, which eventually grew from P10 million to P15 million.</p><p>&quot;Maraming estudyante na Nobyembre pa lang kailangan nang mag-absent sa paaralan at ang iba hindi na nakabalik sa pag-aaral dahil inuna ang simbahan, inuna ang pag-carolling, inuna ang paghanap ng pera,&quot;Valdehueza recalled.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/10/23/200-women-believed-to-have-suffered-sexual-exploitation-at-kojc-says-pnp-1743">• 200 women believed to have suffered sexual exploitation at KOJC, says PNP</a></div><p>When she was later assigned to replicate her fundraising strategies in their US operations, Valdehueza said she witnessed the &quot;double standard life&quot; of their leaders.</p><p>&quot;What we prohibited in the Philippines, we did in [America]. We lived in luxury, dined in expensive restaurants. We watched movies, sky is the limit in our shopping,&quot; she said.</p><p>Later in the hearing, Quiboloy denied Valdehueza revelation, saying KOJC had no &quot;policy&quot; of making children do Christmas caroling to ask for donations every December.</p><p>Quiboloy and other members of the religious group face allegations of qualified human trafficking and sexual abuse involving women and children members of the church.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bH7KK3D0lx4?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Teresita Valdehueza admitted she was the mastermind behind the trafficking of children from Visayas and Mindanao to be deployed as Christmas carolers in Metro Manila.</p>

Teresita Valdehueza admitted she was the mastermind behind the trafficking of children from Visayas and Mindanao to be deployed as Christmas carolers in Metro Manila.

KOJC's 'caroling children' worked 14 hours a day to meet P15M 'quota'

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KOJC's 'caroling children' worked 14 hours a day to meet P15M 'quota'

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel,

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Published October 23, 2024 09:21 PM PHT

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