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Nicole Morales, 22, billed herself as a "spiritual cleanser". What that really is, we don't know, but she said she was "The Divine Master" and a Mayan Priestess.

Sure, you're rolling your eyes, but someone bought it: a Salt Lake City, Utah, woman hired Morales to "spiritually cleanse" her family -- herself and her two sons, aged 12 and 13, in late March.

Mom even went along with it when Morales asked the three of them to strip down to their underwear. Mom apparently didn't even bat an eye when Morales took each boy in turn to their bedrooms, alone, turning off the lights and locking the door each time.

But mom noticed they were "different" afterward, and not in a nice, spiritually "cleansed" sort of way. The boys told their mother Morales did "unpleasant, wrong, uncomfortable and weird" things to them. The wool pulled from her eyes, mom called police.

After investigating, Salt Lake police arrested Morales, and determined she was actually Jose David Morales-Hernandez -- a man. He is charged with nine first-degree felony counts: four counts of sodomy upon a child, and five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child.

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Jose Morales-Hernandez

We have to wonder just as much about mom.

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Most Recent Comments

Posted by Robert in Missouri on April 21, 2010:

Reminds me of the old PT Barnum quote; "There's a sucker born every minute, and two to take him" or in this case, her.

Posted by Susan, Syracuse on April 22, 2010:

Yeesh Roger, first of all the story wasn't about transvestites but rather about a pedophile. Second, if you're going to worry about who's molesting kids, it's FREAKS who molest kids - your definition of freak may be different than mine, but there are plenty of gay people and transvestites (two different groups by the way, different behaviors) who have no interest in kids. If you want to lock up criminals based on statistical behavior, lock up the straight guys - the highest percentage of pedophiles is straight men. I do think that at the least the mom should be investigated by child protective services as she is seriously lacking in common sense!

Posted by Paul-- Newburgh, NY, USA on April 30, 2010:

Lets hope that when he gets to prison, every day is his "turn in the barrel" as the old joke goes.

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