Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of sexual violence against children.

Jonathan Santos sobbed in one of the stalls of a McDonald’s bathroom in Tucson in February.

He admitted to molesting a boy. And his Tucson church protected him for years.

A member of a Tucson church admitted he molested a boy. The pastor said he knew and never went to the police, flouting state laws that mandate reporting of such incidents.

He knew he needed to clock in for work, but he couldn’t stop the tears. He could barely even breathe.

Santos, 23, had just left the Tucson Police Department in the middle of an interview about sexual abuse he said he experienced as a child at the hands of Jose Mora, a former congregant of the Golden Dawn Tabernacle. Mora was arrested and charged in April for allege

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