MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 07/16/2014
It all goes back to a 14-year-old girl’s letter to herself, a prosecutor said. The girl wrote that a family member was making her perform sexual acts.
That wasn’t true, Jacoby Kindred Sr. insisted in Ramsey County District Court. Kindred, 61, of Maplewood, testified in his own defense at his trial, where he faces two charges of criminal sexual conduct.
He’s accused of raping and molesting two underage female relatives over several years, beginning when they were about 6. A preacher who said he was ordained by Sarah Family Ministries of St. Paul, Kindred also told the girls that he had a “sex demon” in him and that if he did not relieve an excessive buildup of sperm in his body, he would die, they testified.
When the older girl was 15, and Kindred had vaginal intercourse with her, he complained that she lay there “like a bump on a log,” she said.
He told the girls that no one would believe them if they reported his actions, they said.
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