'Church' leaders who sold bleach as 'miracle' cure get 12-year prison sentence

The leaders of a Florida "church" have been hit with a 12-year prison term, the DOJ announced Friday.

Earlier this year, Raw Story reported that a Florida family was set to go to trial on charges that they ran an online "church" that pushed an industrial bleach as a cure for HIV, autism, COVID, and multiple other illnesses.

The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing was operated by the Grenon family out of a home in Bradenton, Florida. They claimed their “Miracle Mineral Solution” was a cure for 95 percent of the world’s known diseases.

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Now, the government says they've been sentenced.

"A federal judge in Miami has sentenced Jonathan Grenon, 37, and Jordan Grenon, 29, to 151 months in prison, for conspiring to defraud the United States by distributing an unapproved and misbranded drug, and for contempt of court. Mark Grenon, 66, and Joseph Grenon, 36, were sentenced to 60 months in prison, the statutory maximum sentence for conspiring to defraud the United States by distributing an unapproved and misbranded drug. All four defendants were found guilty by a federal jury following a trial this summer," the Justice Department wrote in a Friday release.

The department added:

"The Grenons, all of Bradenton, Florida, manufactured, promoted, and sold a product they named Miracle Mineral Solution ('MMS'). MMS is a chemical solution containing sodium chlorite and water which, when ingested orally, became chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleach typically used for industrial water treatment or bleaching textiles, pulp, and paper. The Grenons claimed that ingesting MMS could treat, prevent, and cure COVID-19. The FDA, however, had not approved MMS for treatment of COVID-19, or for any other use. Rather, in prior official warning statements, the FDA had strongly urged consumers not to purchase or use MMS for any reason, explaining that drinking MMS was the same as drinking bleach and could cause dangerous side effects, including severe vomiting, diarrhea, and life-threatening low blood pressure."

Read the press release right here.