CALIFORNIA
SF Gate
Kale Williams
Thursday, August 14, 2014
A pastor from Daly City who held services at a number of Bay Area churches has been charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse, prosecutors said.
Ventje Cornelis Singkoh, a 69-year-old pastor at the IPAFC Church at 18th Avenue and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, was taken into custody by Daly City police around 8 a.m. and was charged with three counts of felony child molestation after allegedly abusing a victim younger than 13 for more than a year, starting in January 2013 and ending February 2014, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
Singkoh also held services at the Golden Gate Christian Church on 18th Avenue in San Francisco and the First Presbyterian Church on Colfax Street in Concord, as well as at his residence in Daly City, police said. However, the First Presbyterian Church in Concord said it had no affiliation with Singkoh, and had only leased him a room at the church.
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