In early, 2023, two adult and faithful individuals who have first-hand information from having worked for and volunteered at the institution’s orphanages opened a discourse of child sexual abuse happening at Niños de Mexico. What grew from that stone in the pond of public knowledge rippled out to victim advocates in Mexico and in the US. Pressure exerted on the director and the ministry board members through social media posts of articles and videos intensified over the next two years until the board members agreed to hire Godly Response to Abuse in the Church Environment, a third-party investigative agency in early 2024. It turns out the alleged abuse goes back to the beginning of the Niños de Mexico organization. I completed my account of the story and published Clergy Cover-up Does It Work?. G.R.A.C.E. purchased a copy after I offered to provide any information I had as they did their interviews. The report from the investigation has not been made public at this point in time.
However, two recent articles in Mexican publications announced the raid and closure of five Niños homes for expected abuse. The first details the warrants issued and the charges that may result in thirteen cases against the employees of Niños. (Javier Salinas and Israel Dávila, correspondents for La Jornada, report: Thursday, July 10, 2025, p. 22)
The second states Mexican authorities rescued 37 girls and put them under the protection of the National System for Integral Family Development. (https://wradio.com.mx/2025/07/10/rescata-dif-a-37-menores-de-albergues-infantiles-en-chicoloapan-y-texcoco/)
Clergy Cover-up Does It Work? gives the events from the first petition to the point of the decision of the board of directors to allow the G.R.A.C.E. investigation, including the link between FCCF/Christ First Church and Niños as one of the ministries supported by FCCF/Christ First. FCCF/Christ First was the topic of the Clergy Cover-Up Does It Work? companion book A View From the Pews: The Inside Story of a Broken Church.
From the book:
“’Niños de Mexico is a non-profit mission organization directly supported by churches and individuals throughout the United States,’ per the ministry’s website ninosdemexico.org. Niños de Mexico (Children of Mexico) began operation to establish orphanages and educational centers for the abandoned and orphaned children in Mexico in 1967. They initiated their US office in Union, MO, in 1978 to facilitate contacts with US churches and donors. Since then, the ministry claims to have helped 470 children in nine homes located in three different Mexican states.” (Taylor, Joy S, Lily of the Valley Publishing Services, 2024, Indiana, p. 64.)
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