was an LDS church member in Buenos Aires, Argentina; accused of sexual abuse in or around 2000

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Miguel Angel Michel was “accused of sexually molesting 3 children ages 5-8 years by the victims. He was an active member of the LDS Church in the Derqui neighborhood. “The testimony of two children 18 and 19 years of La Alborada neighborhood complained to the Justice that have been sexually abused as children by a Mormon neighbor of President Derqui same neighborhood, were enough for other evidence pointing to the same subject come out to the light.

In the last hours, a 36-year Derqui center reportedly confessed that the man, identified as Miguel Angel Michel, 58, had abused her when she was 4.”

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