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East New York pastor gets 14 years in prison for raping 11-year-old girl

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A Brooklyn pastor has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and 10 years of post-release supervision after being convicted of repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Oct. 26. The sentence was handed down by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Naiburg. According to the evidence, 63-year-old Paul Lewis, founder and pastor of Messengers for Christ World Healing Center in East New York, which also has branches in Jamaica, Trinidad and Germany, committed the crimes between Sept. 3 and Dec. 23, 2014. Lewis picked up the victim, who was a member of his congregation along with her family, from her home in his vehicle under the pretense of getting food. He drove her to the vicinity of 1380 Broadway, near a McDonald’s in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he sexually assaulted her in his vehicle on multiple occasions. On another occasion, he took the girl to a Brooklyn brownstone, removed her clothes and sexually assaulted her. On Feb.

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