Kingston clergyman, Pastor Kenneth Blake, is now contemplating his next move after a Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test proved that he is the father of the child belonging to a 12-year-old girl he is accused of raping in 2015.
The finding of the test was disclosed in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Monday when the case was mentioned.
Pastor Blake, who had denied raping or molesting the teenager, consented to the test to clear his name last August.
The Harvest Temple Apostolic Church pastor was arrested and charged with rape, grievous s*xual assault, forcible abduction, s*xual touching, and s*xual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 years old following allegations that he had s*x with the child on several occasions in 2015, resulting in her getting pregnant.
It is further alleged that the pastor gave the teen, cash and other gifts to keep the matter a secret.
Attorney for the pastor, Abel Don Foote, who is to take further instructions from his client, when contacted declined to comment.
The matter will next be heard in court on April 16.
In the meantime Joy Crawford co-Founder for Eve For Life, an organisation which champions the cause for victims of s*xual abuse said results of the DNA test is a bitter victory for survivors and advocates of childhood s*xual abuse.
“It is extremely tragic to watch the correlation of clergy and s*xual abuse that is unfolding. This phenomena is not new, or unique to Jamaica however, because Jamaica prides and promotes itself as ‘a Christian’ country, even when it denies the Human Rights of all citizens, including our children. The ‘girl child’ has been demonised in reports of rape, and even when the predators are ‘upstanding men’,” she said.
However, Crawford said, “EVE for Life remains resolute however that these same nuisances are at play when media headlines and the law continue to reference rape as s*x with a minor or someone under age 16 years. This very law said, the girl cannot give consent. That means NO. S*xual intercourse without consent is forced s*x, and when this happens to our children it should be named rape.”
:marah :marah Let’s see how long it will take before his flock rushes in to his defense. My daughter is 11, she is not a teen, so why are they referring to this baby as a teen :marah You can always count on the Jamaican media to minimize the seriousness of such crimes. Now why didn’t har mumma approve an abortion :marah Anti-abortionist people go to the next comment. That unborn would dead, followed by the dutty nasty pawsta. Her mother Neva inquire about the gifts? Is so long DNA results Tek?
If you are going to KILL/ABORT an INNOCENT BLAMELESS BABY to rectify the sins of this disgusting pastor then you MARIE are just as sick and twisted as Pastor Blake
On another note …rapists should be hunted down , castrated and killed
I thought the church was locked down. .I drove pass it a hour ago.Don Foote lose yet another case again. The judge should refer some matters to jungle justice trial.
Son of a bitch!!!!!!! Dem shoulda hang de dutty brute by him dick!
She is now fifteen,so that is why they refer to her as a teen. Now a too much pedophile deh pon pulpit a preach them sick mi raas stomach. Holier and sanctify than thou you can’t find, with them false spirits and demonic tongues. Why him never draw fi a church sister or him probably pass through them already. What kind of satisfaction can he get from a 12 years old child. The broadcast commission did ban Chuck Fender’s gas them and light them, we need to gas him and light him. If any of his church people run in and defend him, they put up with his pedophilia too. Death sentence fi dem please. As for the mother, miss you are partly to be blamed. If you had a good relationship with your child, no dutty man couldn’t give her and cash or kind to keep her quiet. From the get go she would have said something, not when she get pregnant. Where is he s wife, she can’t satisfy him. Is virgin him want? No man castrate the dutty man. Sex offenders should be given a drug to make them impotent!! :batabig
My baby is 12 and i believe when I say I would be on a freaking murder charge!
Some a unnuh parents are to be blamed cause unnuh luv send the little pickney by themselve guh church suh unnuh can lock down with unnuh lover.
Church full a pedophiles and rapists a jus now unnuh a know.
No Choir practice
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No Sunday School