The beleaguered leader of a Waukegan ministry, already charged in a series of sex crimes involving minors in Lake County, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in San Diego, officials there said Monday.
Lloyd Ray Davis, 57, who leads the Waukegan-based Christian Fellowship Inc. and claims followers in several U.S. cities and foreign countries, was charged late last week in San Diego Municipal Court with five felony sex crimes involving a minor, the San Diego prosecutor announced Monday.
Four counts allege committing a lewd act with a minor and the fifth alleges sodomy involving a minor under 16 years of age, according to Deputy District Atty. David Rubin. Each count carries a possible 3-year prison term upon conviction.
Authorities said the alleged encounters were between Feb. 1, 1989, and June 30, 1989. The crimes allegedly took place on church property in the San Diego area and in a room at the Royal Vista Inn in suburban Chula Vista.
The boy was allegedly a member of the church`s affiliate in Tijuana, Mexico, and had been brought by a church member to San Diego to meet Davis, officials said.
Davis was unavailable for comment Monday, according to his associate minister in Waukegan, Peter Paine, who said the charges were false and would be proven so in court.
Davis, known as L.R. to his followers, was indicted in September by a Lake County grand jury on 35 charges ranging from criminal sexual assault to child pornography and perjury. His trial is to begin March 16.
Lake County State`s Atty. Michael Waller said Monday that his office worked closely with California authorities before bringing the Lake County indictment.