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PhillyVoice
BY DANIEL CRAIG
PhillyVoice Staff
Police in Chester County say a pastor raped and impregnated a teenage girl, an accusation that has left the community at his former church “devastated.”
According to authorities, Jacob “Jake” Malone, 33, sexually assaulted the victim while she lived at his home in Exton.
Police had previously believed that Malone was eluding arrest and possibly left the country. But an attorney claiming to represent Malone, a resident of the 300 block of South Whitford Road in Exton, called detectives Tuesday saying his client was out of the country but was flying back in the wake of the allegations, authorities said.
Police are working with the attorney to determine where and when Malone will be returning, authorities added.
Malone reportedly met the victim when she was 12 while pastoring at a church she attended in Mesa, Arizona. In 2014, he reached out to the then-17-year-old girl and invited her to stay with him and his family at his new home in Minnesota, allegedly trying to have inappropriate contact with her.
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