Onlookers flock courthouse as Moravian ministers make first appearance

JAMAICA
Jamaica Observer

BY ALICIA SUTHERLAND Observer staff reporter sutherlanda@jamaicaobserver.com

Thursday, February 02, 2017

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — A Manchester resident has added his voice to the condemnation already being meted out to men of the cloth who are allegedly having sexual relationships with minors.

Clive Porter, who is from the southern end of the parish, was among scores of curious onlookers outside the Manchester Parish Court yesterday, as Moravian clergymen Dr Paul Gardner and Jermaine Gibson made their first appearance to answer to carnal abuse and indecent assault charges.

“Mi would a just like to see who is who and see what is what. Justice need to mek,” Porter told the Jamaica Observer.

The charges were laid against the two men because of an alleged sexually related incident involving a minor that occurred in the parish years ago.

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