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Thursday October 23, 2008
Hosanna Church:
Lamonica is the second of the seven members of the now-defunct Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula to be convicted of rape for their roles in an alleged child sex ring involving three children.Investigators have alleged that some of the acts were part of occult rituals.
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Monday September 29, 2008
Cults • Hosanna Church • Satanic and/or ritual abuse:
After the trial of Louis Lamonica, Richard Ofshe said he could have offered the jury insight into the nature of cults to help them understand what was happening at Hosanna. He said he could have told them there is no such thing as satanic cults that abuse children.
If the initial statements of the children and suspects indicate the abuse occurred as part of a satanic cult — something that has never happened — then the truth of everything alleged in that statement is questionable, Ofshe said.
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Wednesday September 17, 2008
Hosanna Church:
Paul Fontenot is among the seven members of the now-defunct Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula indicted in 2005 on charges of molesting three children as part of occult rituals.
Two other church members already have been convicted of aggravated rape as a result of the investigation
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Sunday September 7, 2008
Hosanna Church:
Lamonica is the second of seven members of the now-defunct Ponchatoula church to be tried and convicted of committing child abuse that sometimes took place along with satanic rituals at the church.Assistant District Attorney Don Wall and Perrilloux said they did not know which one of the five remaining church members they would bring to trial next.
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Saturday August 30, 2008
Hosanna Church:
Louis Lamonica, 49, of Hammond, is on trial in the 21st Judicial District Court on four counts of aggravated rape of his sons when they were age 11 or younger. Seven church members were indicted in 2005 on charges of molesting children. Lamonica is the second among them to go on trial.
Lamonica’s attorney, Michael Thiel, maintained in questioning his client Friday that Lamonica falsely confessed to child rape because he was being controlled by a woman who claimed to be a prophet of God.
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Friday August 29, 2008
Hosanna Church:
Former pastor Louis Lamonica voluntarily walked into the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office and told deputies he molested several children over several years and he told of “dedications to Satan” inside the Ponchatoula church. The pastor’s attorney says a church member manipulated Lamonica into false confession.
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Friday January 18, 2008
Hosanna Church:
A state judge has formally handed down three life sentences for the first member of a now defunct Ponchatoula church to be convicted of sexually abusing children in connection with a case that came to light in 2004.
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Wednesday December 5, 2007
Hosanna Church:
The first of seven members of a now-defunct church accused of raping children as part of a devil-worshipping ritual was found guilty of molesting his 2-year-old daughter and a boy.
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Wednesday March 8, 2006
Hosanna Church:
AMITE -- Prosecutors literally have a truckload of potential evidence to sift through, an unusual set of circumstances to explain to a jury, and far fewer witnesses than they once expected in the case against the members of the defunct Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula.
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Saturday July 30, 2005
Hosanna Church:
Authorities in the small, rural Louisiana town of Ponchatoula were shocked when a local pastor walked into their office in mid-May and allegedly confessed to having sex with children, cats and dogs at his Hosanna Church.
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Thursday July 7, 2005
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From a report by News 2's Claire Hatty
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Hosanna Church:
AMITE - Former Pastor Louis David Lamonica of Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he, along with other members of his church, raped three children under the age of 12.
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Friday July 1, 2005
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Cult sex inquiry focuses on 3 children
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Saturday June 25, 2005
Hosanna Church:
AMITE -- A Tangipahoa Parish grand jury Thursday indicted on various counts of aggravated rape seven of the nine people implicated in a devil-worshiping cult accused of sexually abusing children and animals in a Ponchatoula church.
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Friday June 17, 2005
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AMITE -- The 21st Judicial District Attorney's Office still plans to call a grand jury on June 24 to seek indictments of the nine members of a Ponchatoula church allegedly involved in a child-sex ring, prosecutor Don Wall said Thursday.
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Saturday June 11, 2005
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Some say that child sexual abuse was related to devil worship
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Saturday June 4, 2005
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In the cypress flats of Tangipahoa, a fervently religious area in the swamps north of New Orleans, local people still remember proudly how the Rev Louis Lamonica vowed to "take Tangipahoa parish for Jesus".
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Friday June 3, 2005
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New counts increase DA's options for prosecuting pastor, wife
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Thursday June 2, 2005
Hosanna Church:
AMITE, La. (AP) — Seven of the suspects arrested in connection with an alleged church cult accused of performing sexual acts involving children and animals were booked on new charges Thursday afternoon.
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Tuesday May 31, 2005
Hosanna Church:
A church laid waste by its pastor's bizarre behavior.
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Friday May 27, 2005
Hosanna Church:
An FBI evidence team has wrapped up its search at a church where authorities suspect members engaged in cult-type activities involving the sexual abuse of children and animals.
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Thursday May 26, 2005
Hosanna Church:
People dressed in black clothing stood inside pentagrams and performed blood rituals at the Hosanna Church, according to information coming from an investigation by the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office.
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Wednesday May 25, 2005
Hosanna Church:
Authorities are investigating reports that people dressed in black clothing stood inside pentagrams and performed blood rituals involving the sexual abuse of children and animals at a now-closed church.
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Hosanna Church:
PONCHATOULA, La., May 24 - Two decades ago, Hosanna Church was one of the fastest growing congregations in the cypress flats of Tangipahoa Parish on Lake Pontchartrain's northwest rim, and its pastor, Louis Lamonica, was a beloved figure.
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PONCHATOULA -- Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies worked to bring two alleged cult members to jail in Amite on Tuesday while the Federal Bureau of Investigation dug up the grounds at the Hosanna Church in Ponchatoula looking for more evidence.
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Most Read about Hosanna Church
- Tangipahoa sheriff alleges devil worship in child rape, animal sex case
- Was there a satanic cult at Hosanna Church?
- Ponchatoula church cult cited in child rape, animal sex case
- Ex-Hosanna pastor: Confession forced
- Prosecutors play taped confessions in former pastor's trial
- Third church member's trial in occult rituals molestation case likely in 2009
- Ex-pastor Louis Lamonica gets concurrent life terms in child sex case
- Detective says evidence short
- Police: Witnesses talk of black clothing, blood rituals
- Claims of brainwashing, child abuse and a cult-like sex ring to be aired in court
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