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By Reema Amin | Get In Touch: @ramin215 | ramin@suntimes.com
A woman who claims she was sexually abused almost 60 times before being impregnated by a Chicago pastor is suing him, another clergy member and two churches.
The 26-year-old woman filed the suit Friday against a senior pastor for both Pentecostal Tabernacle Bible and Mission of Christ Evangelical Lutheran churches, which are both listed at 1345 N. Karlov in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
The woman, described as an active member of the churches, alleges the pastor had sexual contact with her 50 to 60 times when she was 17 until she turned 18–from November 2005 through March 2006, according to the lawsuit filed Friday in Cook County Circuit Court.
The pastor would take the woman to Cindy Lyn Motel in Cicero, “often driving [there] in the church van,” the suit claims. He would also take other women and minors to that location, the suit said.
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