CALIFORNIA
Fox 40
[with video]
FEBRUARY 7, 2015, BY RINA NAKANO
SACRAMENTO-
A family representative of an alleged child sex abuse victim spoke exclusively to FOX40, after the alleged abuser appeared in Sacramento County Court earlier this week.
Kareem Abdul Mitchell, 42, is the minister of music for the New Testament Baptist Church Choir in North Highlands. He is accused of sodomy, oral copulation, and other sex acts on a then 16-year-old boy between 2005 and 2008.
A woman who said she is representing the victim’s family told us Mitchell allegedly has a “type.”
“They are usually good looking African American children, males, and usually there is not a father present in the home, and those were the type of kids he targeted,” the woman said.
She said the victim’s father had passed away at an early age, and he sought after a father figure.
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