The leader of a Mexico-based megachurch with millions of followers has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison for abusing young devotees who said they were forced to be his sex slaves.Naasón Joaquín García, the self-styled “apostle” who leads La Luz del Mundo, or the Light of the World, was sentenced Wednesday after unexpectedly pleading guilty last week to three felonies in Los Angeles Superior Court.He was sentenced to 16 years and eight months in prison following nearly three hours of harrowing victim-impact statements by five young women he was charged with abusing.
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