A Nigerian pastor based in the United Kingdom, Reuben Chizor, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a Queens District Court for allegedly raping two sisters aged 12 and 14 years respectively, at his church basement.
Pastor Chizor who is the General Overseer
and Founder of Hope Restoration Ministries located in Queens was found
guilty of the charges preferred against him by the Queens District
Attorney,
Richard Brown.
Brown said that the 56-year-old pastor had constantly abused either of the two girls or both of them for a long period of time while pretending to minister spirituality to them.
The defendant took advantage of his position as a
man of the cloth and the trust placed in him by his followers to
satisfy his depraved desires.
Through manipulation and conniving control, he sexually abused his two young victims for nearly two years.
What
the defendant forced his victims to endure was horrendous — and as
punishment, he now will be spending a lengthy term behind bars, " Brown
said.
The girls who were members of Pastor
Chizor's church, had, in July 2015, confided in a relative that they had
been raped by the pastor and police were notified.
During the trial, the two sisters revealed that Pastor Chizor had first
raped the 14-year-old at the church basement where he lived and went on
to rape the younger one two days later and had continued abusing them
for two years before they had the courage to report the matter.
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