Pastor Married to ‘Porn-Star Pastrix’ Pleads Guilty To Eight Felony Sex Crimes

A pastor who made a name for himself by founding and co-pastoring a church with his active porn star wife has pled guilty to eight felony sex crimes, stemming from the rape of his young sister when she was just eight years old.

In 2020, ‘Pastors Stephen and Angela Dela Cruz, who met in bible college and married shortly after, founded Living Faith Church in San Diego. Their hook was that it was a “church for sinners, by sinners,” using the fact that Angela, who would be preaching and co-pastoring, was an active porn star who spent nearly a decade working as a cam-girl.

As one might imagine, both of these apostates were terrible preachers, unsurprising given their demonic activity and strange sermon names. Amid the sermon titles like “Hearing God through People,” “Prophetic Proclamation,” and “Mastering Money,” there were unconventional sermon titles like “Doggy Style,” God’s Big But!” and “Do you, Boo.”

That they managed to have a full band that sang regular praise and worship songs, have tithes and offerings, serve communion, have altar calls, and preach sermons each Sunday with bible verses sprinkled throughout, frequently urging their 40-50 congregants to go out into the world and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, all the while being able to buy private cam shows and nudes from their ‘pastor’ is astonishing.

Given what a creeper Stephen Dela Cruz, what came next isn’t.

According to a statement by the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office, on May 14, 2024, Stephen Dela Cruz pled guilty to eight felony crimes, including:

• Three counts of PC 261(a)(2)-Forcible Rape
• Three counts of PC 287(c)(2)(a)-Forcible Oral Copulation
• Two counts of PC 289(a)(1)-Sexual Penetration by Foreign Object

The plea brings an end to a complicated legal process that began in 2019 when the victim walked
into the Oxnard Police Department to report that she had been raped by her brother when she was
eight years old.

Nearly six years apart in age, the District Attorney’s office initially filed charges in juvenile court
alleging Delacruz was 14 and 15 at the time of the crimes. Then senior prosecutor Erik Nasarenko
sought to have the case transferred from juvenile court to adult court, arguing that the crimes
involved significant sophistication and planning and were especially violent and severe.

Delacruz
isolated the victim in their Oxnard house and threatened to kill her if she ever disclosed the crimes,
often displaying a knife prior to the sexual assaults, which occurred in 2001 and 2002

While church is now defunct, Dela Cruz and his wife appeared together on her YouTube channel together, just a few months ago, speaking on the importance of “moving on and moving forward.” Given that prosecutors have asked for 30 years in prison, we’ll know in late June where he goes from here.

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