Monday, April 23, 2012

Murdering pastor Julio Perez sentenced

Former Pentecostal pastor Julio Cesar Parez was sentenced to 45 years in prison for arranging for the murder of his wife, a school teacher. The motive was greed. He wanted the $120,000 insurance policy. 

The minister promised a gunman $3,000 in exchange for shooting his wife. The shooter, Daniel Lopez, told the court at his plea hearing that he hid in the back of her van late in March last year, forced her off the road on Robles Road near Rio Hondo and shot her.

Lopez was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Source: Minister gets 45 years for arranging wife's murder by Madeline Buckley

Who kills someone for $3,000? I have trouble understanding this kind of crime. How does a man of God turn on their wife with murderous intent? How does murder, greed, and conspiracy factor into the life of a pastor? What gospel was he studying? Is this what Pentecostals preach?

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reasonbeing 90p · 678 weeks ago

I can't imagine anyone being willing to kill another person for $3k. Not that any amount of money would make it acceptable, but 3k? Really? As far as the Pastor goes...it just goes to show that they really are no different than the rest of us. They claim a moral high ground, but how many pastors have been in trouble with the law in recent years? They have the same faults as the rest of us. There are just as many dishonorable people who are "of the cloth" as in any other profession...perhaps more if we take the Catholic child abuse cases into account...
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mikespeir 65p · 678 weeks ago

You mystify me, Mojoey. Sometimes you talk as though you really expect a "man of God" to be better than most. And that after all the contrary evidence you've posted over the years. Why?
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Mojoey 107p · 678 weeks ago

Mike - it's meant to be rhetorical and is aimed at Christians. And,
like any man (or woman), if they wrap themselves in morality, I expect
them to act the part. They almost never do.
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mikespeir 65p · 678 weeks ago

I suspected as much, of course. ;)

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