Houston adoptive father of 9 used religion, social media to mask abuse of children, prosecutors say

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Houston adoptive father of 9 used religion, social media to mask abuse of children, prosecutors say
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Each court appearance of the defendant, the latest on Friday and with him now facing 12...

— whose birth name is Jeffrey Lujon Vejil — outside his portrayal of a tight-knit, pious family on social media.,” said Janna Oswald, chief prosecutor for the Harris County District Attorney’s Crimes Against Children Division.

Cohen frequently touted raising nine children as a single father under the “Our Unique Family” website and social media accounts of the same name. He also depicted the family as practicing the Orthodox Hasidic faith — a persona that members of the Orthodox community near Cohen’s Brays Oaks home have questioned and flagged to authorities for years. Those faith members declined to be publicly identified.

Charles Johnson, who began representing Cohen last week, adamantly referred to the charges as accusations and said he is still reviewing the"voluminous amount of discovery" prosecutors gave him. “If we go to trial, I've every intent that the children will testify,” Oswald said. “My goal as a child abuse prosecutor is to do the least amount of harm to any children, young adults that have been abused. A lot of the times that means trying to keep them off the stand and doing what's right by them in their journey to be able to heal from what they've endured.

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