MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 10/02/2014
A Maplewood pastor was sentenced to 24 years in prison for raping two young girls over a period of several years.
Jacoby Kindred Sr., 62, insisted, as he had at trial, that he was innocent.
“I did nothing to those children,” he told Ramsey County District Judge Rosanne Nathanson on Thursday. “I never touched them.”
He said the sisters falsely accused him because their family was angry with his family.
A jury convicted Kindred on July 17 on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, one for each victim. The older girl was about 6 or 7 when the abuse began, she testified.
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