by Adeola Balogun

Horrific details of crimes committed by a gang of paedophiles led by a pastor in the American state of Louisiana have emerged.

Pastor Louis Lamonica Jr. went into a police station in the Livingston area of the state and made his confession to Detective Stan Carpenter.

Lamonica, a pastor at the Hosanna Church in Hammond told a tale of satanic rituals, child abuse and animal sacrifice with him at the center.

The pastor also named his accomplices, which included his wife, and their child victims.

Major Carpenter, 62, said:

‘Lamonica walked into my office and sat down, just as calm as you and me talking now.

‘I was Detective Supervisor at the time. When he came in he basically thought that after he told us what he did he was just going to go on about his business of the day.

‘Listening to him, here where we’re all Christian, it kind of floored me. You’re talking about a man who professes to be a preacher, a pastor and a church leader abusing children and worshiping Satan.

‘I’m an old guy. I’m coming up to retire in a couple of years. I thought I’d seen it all and sometimes I reckon you have seen it all, only in different ways. Then something like this happens. It stays with you.’

Lamonica stated in his confession:

‘I want to talk about the dedication (to Satan) of a baby. It was held at the church, upstairs, in what was called the Youth Room.’

All the windows were covered in black, ‘like black paper, keep it dark.’

There was a pentagram in the middle of the floor and a book of ‘Spells and Temptations.’ 

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Lamonica stated: ‘They would start off like a church service but it was Satanic music. There were candles burning, dark, red candleholders. And the dedication of baby A into Satan with this Pentagram, she was put in the middle, in a black dress.’

He described chanting around the child – Trey Bernard’s daughter, barely one year old at the time – before killing a cat, draining its blood and each drinking it.

He claimed they did not make the child drink because she was too young and instead took off her dress and sprinkled the blood over her.

These meetings, according to Lamonica, took place once every two to three months.

On other occasions ‘certain girls would be picked and have sexual relationships with. The guys would line up, one by one, they would come and they would have sex with that girl. And the same if there was a woman…they would have [a] homosex (sic) relationship and oral sex, acting like one was a man and one was a woman.’

He claimed that there was ‘feces laid around. There was urine.’

And he claimed that during these satanic rituals he would become ‘distorted’ by the Devil and that demons would change him into an animal – ‘a snake, a fox, wolf, spiders.’

 

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He called his own wife, Robin, The Lady because she was an Organizer and made sure ‘stuff goes right.’  Trey was the ‘Mastermind’ and Lamonica himself was ‘Chief’.

Lamonica stated that the secret ceremonies had started in 1999 and carried onto 2003 when he and his wife separated and he moved out of the church building.  Bernard’s wife, Nicole, left Bernard and took their daughter with her to Ohio.

Two days before Lamonica walked into Major Carpenter’s office, Nicole had telephoned Tangipahoe Parish Sherriff Daniel Edwards – the man initially tasked with investigating the crimes that had taken place in his jurisdiction – with similar allegations.

The news quickly broke in this small, deeply religious stretch of Louisiana.

The church had a strong legacy in the area. Lamonica’s father, Louis Lamonica Sr founded it and was a respected and much loved pastor. The church had thrived for more than twenty years.

Lamonica’s claim that the church had converted to Satanism in 2000 was profoundly, indescribably shocking.

The building that had once been the heart of a community became a dark void at its center. It became a crime scene. Sheriff Edwards announced that there could be ‘as many as 25 victims.’

Bestiality was added to the already sickening mix as Bernard and later Lamonica’s own sons claimed that he had sex with the family’s pet poodle. Bernard had already confessed to abusing his own daughter since she was two months old.

He was the first of the Hosanna Church accused to be convicted of abuse.  It was pedophilia – brutal and sustained and grim. Lamonica’s sons, now 18 and 20, had given graphic accounts of long-term abuse at the hands of their father, Bernard – with whom it emerged, Lamonica was engaged in a sexual relationship.

They also described occasions in which they were subjected to various abuses as they were passed between their father, Bernard and Paul Fontenot At times they had claimed their mother and Trish Pierson were present.