MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 07/17/2014
A Maplewood preacher was convicted Thursday afternoon of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving girls he had raped and molested for years.
Ramsey County jurors returned their verdicts on Jacoby Kindred Sr. after more than six hours of deliberation over two days.
Kindred, 61, removed his watch, wallet and money clip and set them on the courtroom table upon hearing the verdicts, county attorney’s spokesman Dennis Gerhardstein said. Sheriff’s deputies took him into custody immediately. He had been out of jail during the trial.
Kindred’s family, including his wife, declined comment after the sentencing.
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