A Nigerian pastor based inwards Queens has been sentenced to fifteen years inwards prison theater for raping ii girls for years inwards the basement of his church building inwards New York.
According to New York Daily News, Reuben Chizor’s victims were sisters too also members of his Hope Restoration Ministries congregation.
They were 12 too xiv years when the abuse began inwards 2011.
The girls confided inwards each other they had been raped yesteryear the 56-year-old clergy, too they notified the law inwards 2015.
According to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown: “The accused took payoff of his position every bit a human of the textile too the trust placed inwards him yesteryear his followers to satisfy his depraved desires.
“Through manipulation too conniving control, he sexually abused his ii immature victims for near ii years.”
Trial testimony final calendar month revealed that on July 27, 2011, Chizor took the 14-year-old victim to the church building basement, where he lived, too raped her.
On Aug. 22, 2011, he raped the 12-year-old.
Chizor's prison theater term volition survive followed yesteryear 10 years of post-release supervision.