{"id":240486,"date":"2025-08-20T06:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=240486"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:46:45","slug":"los-alcarrizos-pastor-sentenced-to-10-years-for-abusing-children-and-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/20\/los-alcarrizos-pastor-sentenced-to-10-years-for-abusing-children-and-teenagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Alcarrizos pastor sentenced to 10 years for abusing children and teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pastor-Johan-Manuel-Castillo-Ortega-Diario-Libre-1024x634.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240526\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pastor-Johan-Manuel-Castillo-Ortega-Diario-Libre-1024x634.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pastor-Johan-Manuel-Castillo-Ortega-Diario-Libre-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pastor-Johan-Manuel-Castillo-Ortega-Diario-Libre-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pastor-Johan-Manuel-Castillo-Ortega-Diario-Libre-1536x952.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pastor-Johan-Manuel-Castillo-Ortega-Diario-Libre.png 1582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An evangelical pastor from Los Alcarrizos was sentenced to ten years in prison on Tuesday, 18 August 2025 after a Santo Domingo court found him guilty of sexually assaulting several little girls and teenagers. Los Alcarrizos is a densely-populated low and middle income area located north of the capital city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44-year old Johan Manuel Castillo Ortega was convicted and ordered to pay a fine of RD$100,000 to the state and RD$1 million in compensation to his victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castillo Ortega, who preyed on six girls and teenagers, used his position as a religious leader to gain the trust of his victims. The assaults took place in the church where he preached and in his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors Sugely Valdez, Francheska Alc\u00e1ntara, and Nicasio Pulinario presented evidence that led to the conviction. The prosecution&#8217;s case, led by investigator Olivia Sosa, showed that Castillo Ortega would use his victims\u2019 vulnerability to his advantage, groping them and making unwanted advances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the indictment, Castillo Ortega also showed victims pornographic films, exposed himself to them, and made obscene gestures when they came to his house to play with his daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the victims are minors, while four are now adults. One of the adult victims testified that the assault occurred when she was just seven years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three-judge panel of the Fourth Collegiate Court of Santo Domingo Oeste\u2014Julio de Los Santos Morla, Sandra Josefina Cruz Rosario, and Clara Yoselin Rivera Franco\u2014upheld the prosecution&#8217;s request to keep Castillo Ortega in custody. He will continue to serve his sentence at the Najayo Men&#8217;s Center for Correction and Rehabilitation in San Crist\u00f3bal province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/2025\/08\/19\/los-testimonios-que-hundieron-a-pastor-johan-manuel-castillo-ortega\/3218130\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnacional.com.do\/condenan-a-pastor-a-10-anos\/\">El Nacional <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20250819\/tribunal-conde-10-anos-prision-pastor-abuso-sexual-seis-ninas-adolescentes_870863.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evangelical pastor from Los Alcarrizos was sentenced to ten years in prison on Tuesday, 18 August 2025 after a Santo Domingo court found him guilty of sexually assaulting several little girls and teenagers. Los Alcarrizos is a densely-populated low and middle income area located north of the capital city. 44-year old Johan Manuel Castillo &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/20\/los-alcarrizos-pastor-sentenced-to-10-years-for-abusing-children-and-teenagers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240528,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240486\/revisions\/240528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}