St Mary Seventh Day Adventist the Latest Churchman Accused of Having Sex with Minor

Loop
February 1, 2017

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An elder in a Seventh Day Adventist Church in St Mary was arrested Tuesday night for having sex with a minor.

He was reportedly taken into custody by the Port Maria Police after a probe by the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA).

The alleged victim is reportedly a 14-year-old girl.

News of the development broke as two former leaders of the Moravian church in Jamaica - Rev Dr Paul Gardner, former president of the church body, and his ex-deputy Jermaine Gibson - appeared in a Manchester court on Wednesday facing charges of having sex with a girl when she was aged 12 and 14.

The Moravian church sex scandal was triggered by the arrest in December 2016 of Pastor Rupert Clarke.

Clarke was allegedly caught having sex with a 15-year-old girl St Elizabeth girl in his car.