NEW YORK
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BY JAMES FORD
WOODSIDE, Queens — He’s the pastor of a church with a major outreach to young people, but now Rev. James E. Love is charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl.
Love posted bail Monday night and on Tuesday his friends, neighbors and congregation tried to cope with the accusations.
“I’m still in shock,” said family friend Regina Jennings.
She’d shown up Tuesday afternoon at the pastor’s apartment in the Woodside Houses public housing complex to offer support to Love and his wife.
Love’s wife regularly babysat the girl in the couple’s first floor apartment. According to the criminal complaint from the Queens district attorney’s office, between March and last week, Love exposed himself to the girl, made her touch his genitals and he touched her inappropriately, multiple times.
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