Bizarre sex scandal within Toronto’s Jesus First Church concludes as pastor found not guilty of sex assault

One of the so-called victims of alleged gang rapes within a Korean “cult” now says the allegations were fictitiously scripted by the “cult leader,” a lawyer for one of the accused charged said Tuesday.
The case unravelled in March after a teenaged girl and three young women told police they were drugged, beaten and gang-raped by a group of men whom they had met through a Korean church between the fall of 2009 and February 2010.
Reports that Greater Toronto Area pastor Jae-Kap (Joe) Song ran a sex cult and received his religious training from a California mail order firm are ridiculous fabrications, Song’s lawyer says.
Nine members of the congregation — including two women — have been charged with sex-related offences since March.
Jacqueline An, a Toronto lawyer representing one of the accused, refuses to call Jae-Kap Song a “pastor” or “reverend,” saying instead that he was the leader of a cult with branches in Canada’s Greater Toronto Area and South Korea.
Song’s legal woes increased this month, when three former members of his congregation — who are facing criminal charges in Canada — successfully pressed authorities in South Korea to lay charges against Song.