A “shamanistic chief” of a spiritual neighborhood in Southern California was arrested after two feminine victims got here ahead and accused him of sexual assault, together with one woman who was underneath 14, authorities mentioned.
Ricardo I. Flores, 59, who additionally goes by “Koyote the Blind,” is going through eight felony fees, together with rape by drive and aggravated sexual assault of a kid, in accordance with the Riverside County District Legal professional’s Workplace, the New York Instances reported.
Flores, who was described by police because the “spiritual chief of a shamanistic neighborhood at varied places” in Riverside County, was arrested on the morning of Aug. 7 on the southern border the place he was returning to the US from Mexico, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
The Rialto resident was focused by investigators after “a number of” victims went to the sheriff’s station in Moreno Valley on Aug. 1 to report sexual assaults that Flores allegedly dedicated at Xicoco Shamanic Arts — a nonprofit group Flores leads within the metropolis.
The assaults occurred between 2012 and 2023, authorities mentioned.
Flores was taken into custody and booked on the Robert Presley Detention Heart for sexual assault and youngster sexual abuse fees.
Authorities mentioned there could also be further victims and urged anybody with info to come back ahead.
He was arraigned on Aug. 9, in accordance with the Instances. He’s scheduled to look in courtroom subsequent on Aug. 23 on the Riverside Corridor of Justice, jail data present.
The Submit has reached out to the Riverside County Public Defender’s Workplace, which is representing Flores, for remark.
Flores, an writer who’s initially from El Salvador, describes himself in on-line profiles as an exiled shaman, who says he’s versed in magic, alchemy and yoga, amongst different esoteric teachings.
He “skilled in Tantra Yoga and Western Mysticism throughout his adolescence, till he was compelled into exile when focused by that troubled nation’s dying squads,” his writer profile on Amazon claims. He entered the US in 1985 the place he says he obtained political asylum.
Flores touts his “therapeutic system” and “historical therapeutic power” known as “Aka Dua.”
Flores has additionally referred to teachings associated to intercourse in his varied podcasts appearances and on-line blogs the place he preaches on his mastery of “Sexual Alchemy” and “Intercourse Magick,” the paper reported.
Extra just lately, Flores has supplied retreats at Xicoco, which he calls “an esoteric faculty of the Toltecs, the place he trains college students in magick, shamanism, mysticism, and yoga” in his Amazon profile. Individuals pays as much as hundreds of {dollars} for the workshops, in accordance with The Instances.
Xicoco’s web site says it “hosts Sweat Lodges, Imaginative and prescient Quests, and a Medication Wheel.”
His wide-ranging books and teachings draw on a number of non secular traditions, from indigenous American beliefs and trendy mystics like Aleister Crowley, in accordance with The Instances.
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