MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 07/14/2014
The 14-year-old girl had not intended for anyone to know her secret. But when an older teenage cousin was looking for some notebook paper, the cousin came across a folded-up letter that the young girl had written.
A male relative “would ask for sex and stuff,” she wrote. She felt worthless.
“At times, I wish I was dead or never born.”
The girl’s allegations involved Jacoby Kindred Sr., 61, a Maplewood pastor who faces two charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Prosecutors say he sexually assaulted the girl and her older sister for years, forcing anal sex on one and oral sex on both of them. Testimony in his trial began Monday in Ramsey County District Court.
Kindred told police he was a pastor with One Accord Ministries, which he said does not have a building, according to the criminal complaint against him. He referred to himself on his now-defunct Facebook page as “Jacoby Preacherman.”
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