A family from San Antonio made her adopted daughter give birth to three children
'20.07.2018'
Source: The Daily Mail
A San Antonio resident was convicted of the 33 year in prison for having forced her adoptive daughter to have sex during 15 years and forced her to give birth to three children who were given out as their own.
Laura Castillo and her husband Eusebio were arrested after a long-term story surfaced, in which their adopted daughter, now 28-year-old Abigail Alvarado, was involved, tells The Daily Mail.
In addition to the abuse, another shocking detail became known - Castillo created a church in his yard and attracted hundreds of people, leading them to believe that one of Abigail's children could heal cancer. Laura was found guilty of three cases of aggravated sexual assault. Her husband is currently awaiting his verdict.
The investigation began in 2014, when Abigail was finally able to report the incident to the police. It turned out that the young woman is a biological relative of the couple who adopted her - she is the niece of Laura herself. The bullying began when the girl was only 9 years old. Then she was taken from her alcoholic mother and sent to Castillo in Hawaii, at a military base. They later officially adopted her.
Eusebio, according to the woman, began to go into her room at night and pester her almost immediately after the girl arrived at the base. She tried to tell her aunt, but she did not believe and ignored the complaints. The family moved to Texas in 2001 when Abigail was in her early teens. Eusebio began to force her to have sex at the age of 13, and Laura began to “help” her husband, including forcing the girl to go to bed with both of them. In addition, the couple frequently beat and verbally abused her.
Once Laura demanded that the girl become a "surrogate mother" for the couple. When she first became pregnant with Eusebio's child, Abigail tried to hide her nausea from her classmates, and later said that the child's father was a boy from a nearby school. At 17, she gave birth to a daughter, then another at 20, and a boy at 23. All the children were raised in full confidence that they were the children of Laura and Eusebio, everyone around them believed in the same way. According to Abigail, she feared that it would get worse because Eusebio repeatedly threatened to harm her children and kill himself.
In 2009, Castillos moved to San Antonio, where they founded the Chapel of St. Peregrin as part of the Mexican Catholic Apostolic Church, right in their backyard.
During the following years, the couple received donations from thousands of worshipers who believed that the daughter of the couple who had been born to Abigail was a healer who could cure cancer. It was in this church that Abigail met her future husband, Rudi Alvarado. She says that it was he who finally helped her to tell about everything to the authorities. It took years before she could confess to a loved one, and even then she was still afraid to admit to the police.
Everything changed when, in 2014, Laura was urgently taken to the hospital - everyone thought she was going to die. Eusebio said to his stepdaughter: “When she dies, you and I will remain. We will get married, we will have more children and we will develop the church. From the outside we will be father and daughter, but in fact - husband and wife ”. After Abigail broke down and went to the police, her adoptive parents fled.
The police eventually traced the pair two years later after Laura created the GoFundMe page, where she indicated her location as San Juan, Texas. The woman asked for donations for treatment. Eusebio was arrested in February 2017 of the year, and his wife was taken into custody in June of the same year.
Now Abigail and her husband are raising their children from Eusebio. The woman regained contact with her biological mother.
