The pastor of a New York City baptist church has been charged with the $exual abuse and Rap£ of his own young daughter over six years.The abuse is alleged to have been taking place on the church’s grounds since 2012, shortly after the victim’s mother died. ‘He should rot in hell,’ said the victim’s grandmother, Josephine Maples. ‘How can a father do this?’ Myia Maples, the victim’s sister-in-law, says the victim confided in her about the abuse last week, blurting it out in a moment of emotion.
The victim’s twin brother says he was present at the church when the assaults were taking place, but had no idea what was going on. ‘He would make me play on the drums, and when it was happening, I wouldn’t be nowhere around,’ he said in an interview with NBC New York. ‘I feel like, in the moment, I let my sister down.’