PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: Friday, January 11, 2013
A church deacon has been arrested on charges he raped a 13-year-old girl at a Bensalem motel two years ago, police announced Thursday.
District Judge Leonard Brown arraigned Humberto Cervantes, 34, of Coatesville, on nine offenses and ordered him held on $1 million bail. Police said Cervantes was a deacon at a Trenton Pentecostal church when he befriended the alleged victim, now 15.
Police said Cervantes met with the alleged victim several times in Bensalem.
The two “went to a few parks and talked about church, life, and family,” police said. “On the final visit, when the victim believed they were going to a park, Cervantes took her to a Bensalem motel and raped her,” police alleged.
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