LOS ANGELES — The defendant was already facing bail of $50 million, one of the highest ever in Los Angeles County, when Judge David R. Fields ruled the leader of a church who was accused of many sex crimes against children should have no bail, period.
In July 2019, Naason Joaquin Garcia, head of La Luz del Mundo, was in Fields’ courtroom for a preliminary hearing where the judge heard details of videos of the defendant en... (continued)