A 56-year-old pastor will be sentenced on October 18 after he pleaded guilty Monday to having sex on several occasions with a 12-year-old child more than three years ago.
The Gleaner newspaper reported that Pastor Kenneth Blake had for the past two years denied having sex with the child, who gave birth to a boy on November 30, 2017.
He has pleaded guilty to grievous sexual assault, having sex with a person under 16 years old and sexual touching when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston.
In addition, the pastor of the Harvest Temple Apostolic Church had been charged with rape and forcible abduction, but those charges have since been withdrawn.
Blake was arrested and charged in August 2017 by detectives assigned to the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse and the charges were filed against him after the child gave investigators a detailed statement in which she complained that Blake had sex with her at his when she was 12 years old.
She said that the first sexual encounter occurred in 2015, when the pastor gave her older sister money to go downtown and “buy some things” . She said after the encounter, the pastor began giving her gifts to keep quiet about their sexual encounters.
But when she became pregnant in August 2017 she confessed to her mother, but Blake denied the accusations, even after two DNA tests found that there was a 99.9 per cent chance he could not be excluded as the father.
The second test was done at a private institution chosen by Blake after he complained that the first test, conducted at the Government Forensic Laboratory, was “tainted”.
He told the court then that the accusations were part of an extortion attempt by the child’s mother.
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A PASTORAL KINGDOM – THE DEVIL – THE TRUTH
Though it came some three years late, ‘…Open Confession is good for the Pastor’s Soul.’
A Pastor appeared to have been wrestling with the ‘…Devil and the Truth.’
Finally, he resisted the ‘Devil’ and caved in under the ‘Truth.’
So too will be his ‘…Pastoral Kingdom.’
Pastor,do not drop the soap.
IT is said that women, money and fame are the three major things Satan often uses to entice men of God to fall from grace. There may be several other factors, but the three which are also referred to as the 3Fs for Females, Finance and Fame are the commonest.
Most men of God are tempted in these three areas by Satan to get them off their divine assignments and duties. Sampson and Solomon fell because of women. The enemy used women to influence their sense of judgment against the will of God. This is clearly a deranged, nasty and awful man who used his position as Pastor to interfere with underage girls. Sentencing guidelines in Jamaica not tough enough and he might only serve 5 to 8 years in prison.
He should burn in hell leave the children alone am sure he has a wife.
call it what it is .. ‘rape’, please
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