A Maplewood pastor was sentenced to 24 years in prison for raping two young girls over a period of several years.
Jacoby Kindred Sr., 62, insisted, as he had at trial, that he was innocent.
"I did nothing to those children," he told Ramsey County District Judge Rosanne Nathanson on Thursday. "I never touched them."
He said the sisters falsely accused him because their family was angry with his family.
A jury convicted Kindred on July 17 on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, one for each victim. The older girl was about 6 or 7 when the abuse began, she testified.
The younger girl was in elementary school.
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The older victim testified that Kindred told her about a religious meeting he had attended in which "a sex demon went inside him through some girl he was praying for." The only way for him to get the demon out was to have sex with her, he said.
Kindred told police he was a pastor with One Accord Ministries, which has no building, according to the criminal complaint against him. He referred to himself on his now-defunct Facebook page as "Jacoby Preacherman."
Kindred testified that he was ordained by Sarah Family Ministries of St. Paul and worked out of the Maplewood home he shared with his wife.
Maplewood pastor gets 24 years for raping 2 girls over years - TwinCities.com
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