The Spanish National Police detained in Barcelona a 38-year-old evangelical pastor wanted in Argentina for sexual abuse and assault on minors, all members of the congregation he led, the security force reported.
Is about Jonathan Matias Blancowho was accused of aggravated sexual abuse in a case that is being processed in the National Criminal and Correctional Court 43, in charge of Alejandro Héctor Ferro, who requested his international capture and subsequent extradition, told Télam from the Ministry of Security of Argentina .
Blanco is accused of abusing six minors in events that occurred between 2017 and 2021, according to a report from the Federal Investigation Division of Fugitives and Extraditions of Interpol Argentina, which requested his arrest, and maintained contacts with the Spanish judicial authorities during the search.
The modality to attract minors
The evangelical pastor used the trust obtained by his role in the congregation in which the adolescents participated to commit the abuses, according to the judicial investigation.
In all cases, with the excuse of giving them a gift, playing on the play station or watching a movie, he invited the victims -between the ages of 12 and 17- to sleep in his apartment, where he carried out the attacks.
One of the facts that is imputed to him is the abuse of two brothers, one 14 and the other 12, occurred in the home of Blanco’s mother.
In another of the events, the pastor invited another minor to participate in the prayers he was saying around the Syrian Lebanese Hospital, where his mother was hospitalized, and then moved with him to his apartment, where he committed the abuse with the excuse of give him a massage
Investigators in Spain received a request from the Argentine court on November 10 to locate and arrest “a fugitive from the most wanted list” in the country, according to the police report.
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