Thursday, January 23, 2014

Pastor Joseph Angel Olvera sentenced

Pastor Joseph Angel Olvera of Lifeline Ministries in Fullerton was found guilty of sexually abusing an 18-year-old woman who attended his church.

Joseph Angel Olvera, 55, of Fullerton was found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of touching an intimate part of another person.

Olvera formerly worked as a pastor at Lifeline Ministries, 552 E. Patterson Way, officials said. Prosecutors said that about 9 a.m. Aug. 22, 2012, Olvera approached the bed of the woman, who was living in the church, to wake her up for work.

Olvera rubbed her hand and arm, then her neck and back, and put his hand down her shirt, according to a District Attorney’s Office news release.

Source: Former Fullerton pastor gets jail for sexual abuse of woman, 18 by Alyssa Duranty

Olvera will serve four months in jail and three years probation.

The crimes occurred in 2012. Pastor Olvera was originally arrested in October of 2013. 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This was a set up. The girl had made advances towards the pastor. The pastor had told his wife and the church counsel. There was to be a meeting about this to confront the situation but Corina never showed up. The church was already closing the doors due to the pastor retiring, around that same time there was a group called solidarity that was using the churches name to get funds from colleges and other organizations and pocketing the money. When the pastor confronted this group he closed the doors of his church completely. Soon after, these allegations came out the entire church counsel where in shock because the church had already closed it's doors and the dates of the allegations were claimed to of happened a month after no one there. The pastor always maintained his innocence and those counsel members continue to support him. Now to hear the baffling part, the pastor was never allowed to give his side of the story in court. The judge sitting on the case was under investigation at that time for the same type of charges and in fact of just recent has been banned to sit as judge for life. As for Corina, she is now apart of that solidarity group and lives with the director at his house.

Anonymous said...

Funny thing is Corina has been in relationships with multiple men in the church and her and her family have been mooching off the pastors family for a decade. now the family found someone else to use and abuse. In there minds I guess it's better than being homeless, but to me they're just leeches that need to be popped. It sucks how a good man could be used like that and then thrown to the curb after helping all those homeless druggy kids off the streets, but at the end of the day those sick minded people just did what they thought they had to do to survive. it's not like they cared about anything other than there selves to begin with. They just needed a place to stay. Screwed up world we live in.....

Anonymous said...

At the end the pastor squashed his probation did his time in 2014, while inside he led 8 men to Jesus and saw prayers answered for men facing hard time. He is now divorced, works, living a comfortable and quite life and most critical, He still leads people to Jesus.
Asked if he is bitter of the lies said in court or that the judge presiding over his case was facing sexual assault charges himself or that the investigating officers was fired for sexual misconducts with women fighting custody battles? He answered," no not at all, no one is above reproach, my identity is not based on past mistakes, past failures, nor position held nor what people say, My identity is based in Christ, I am forgiven and restored".
If the story in the bible ended and Joseph went to jail, the end. It would be a sad ending but he didn't, God had a plan and he became 2nd in command in Egypt. Amen

Anonymous said...

News accounts of this crime said he had to register as a sex offender. Why can his name not be found on the Megan's Law website? He DOES have a history of sexual assault that goes way back to his teen years... he's also good at manipulating others into thinking women are always seeking him out... I hope he has repented in his old age...