FORMER KJC MEMBER REVEALS ABUSES. Former member of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) Teresita Kinanhan Valdehueza weeps as she relates the sexual abuses and physical torture she endured under the hands of KJC pastor Apollo Quiboloy during a hearing conducted by the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality Wednesday, October 23, 2024. “On September 29, 1999, I decided to leave without asking for permission, determined to free myself from his control. Finally, clearly understood that the man I believed to be chosen and holy, was an impostor, oppressor and deceiver. He manipulated me using his authority and power as God’s anointed,” Valdehueza told senators. (Photo from Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau)
MANILA, Philippines — After 31 years, Teresita Valdehueza finally broke her silence as she narrated in details during a Senate hearing the alleged sexual abuse she suffered in the hands of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.
She told her story in the presence of Quiboloy, who faced the Senate committee on women for the first time on Wednesday.
According to Valdehueza, she was just 17 when she joined Quiboloy’s Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) in 1980.
“Apollo C. Quiboloy, whom I revered, was considered as God’s anointed, and his words held absolute authority. I respected him deeply, viewing him as truly a man of God,” she said.
Her ordeal, however, started in October 1993.
Valdehueza said she was in Manila when she received a call from the pastor, instructing her to travel to Cebu “where he would share this important message.”
She said Quiboloy was scheduled to preach in Cebu City that Sunday.
“Upon arriving in Cebu City, we arranged for him to stay at the Park Place Hotel in Fuente Osmeña. That evening, he instructed me to remain in the hotel while Nilda Linda, the assigned worker, returned to the workers’ house,” Valdehueza said.
When they were alone in a suite room of the hotel, she said she asked Quiboloy if she could sleep on the sofa.
But Quiboloy allegedly insisted that she should sleep beside her.
”Sleeping beside a man I believed to be chosen by God was for me then a great privilege, an opportunity for a sinner like me,” Valdehueza said.
“But what followed shattered my sense of faith and trust. Without a word, after turning off the light, he embraced me, undressed me, and violated me with his lustful act that left me in shock and speechless. He then said, “This is the fulfillment of God’s revelation.”
”He explained that God had revealed to him that I was to partake in God’s life through him by surrendering my body, soul and spirit. He also mentioned that other girls would go through him in a similar manner,” she added.
Valdehueza said the pastor’s words were strange, but she was “too shocked” to respond.
When she returned to Manila, she said, she was again instructed to sleep in his room.
“Fear gripped me, but defying the “anointed of God” was unthinkable. We had been taught that such disobedience would invite a curse,” Valdehueza recalled.
She said she wanted to go out from the ministry but she lacked courage.
On February 15, 1998, Valdehueza said Quiboloy “used” her again.
“It was always out of fear that I obeyed, a fear mixed with anxiety that he might know how I pretended to be extremely grateful that he allowed me to be a part of his physical life, because in all honesty, and God truly knew, I was not,” she said.
The following year, she said she tried to resign twice as a full-time volunteer but it was rejected by the pastor.
It was only on September 13, 1999 when she left without asking for permission from the religious leader.
But Quiboloy did not stop “terrorizing,” her as he would allegedly send his personal bodyguard, Alex Camia, to her place to harass her, according to Valdehueza.
It was just three years ago when she learned from Camia himself that there was an alleged order to kill her.
“Pinaniwala po siya na ako ay may malaking kasalanan at ako’y napakasamang babae,” she told the senators.
(He was led to believe that I had committed a great sin and that I was a very bad woman.)
“Nang tinanong ko kung ano ang aking kasalanan, sinabihan daw siya na tinukso ko raw si Apollo Carreon Quiboloy. Nakiapid daw ako sa mga ministro. Nakipagtalik daw ako mismo doon sa workers’ house at nagnakaw daw ako ng P3 million,” she said.
(When I asked what my sin was, he said he was told that I had tempted Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, had an affair with the ministers, had sexual relations right there in the workers’ house, and had stolen P3 million.)
NOTE: The English translations in the article were AI-generated.