Harlem pastor who moonlights as therapist charged with rape over accusations of trysts inside the church with patient during sessions - New York Daily News

A Harlem pastor who moonlights as a therapist has been charged with rape over accusations of trysts inside the church with a patient during sessions.

Kirton Lashley, 57, allegedly had sex with the victim, a woman in her 30s, during sessions beginning in October 2016 and lasting through December at the Beulah Wesleyan Methodist Church on W. 136th St. near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.

Under the law, a person in the care of a medical doctor or mental health professional cannot consent to sexual activity with the provider. The criminal complaint against him does not describe any forcible conduct.

For more than two years the pastor and patient “engaged in a sexual relationship,” according to court papers.

Harlem pastor who moonlights as therapist charged with rape over accusations of trysts inside the church with patient during sessions - New York Daily News

Harvey Weinstein, whose downfall sparked the Me Too movement, arrested and charged with rape – ThinkProgress

Not a case I would normally track but for interest sake,,,

On Friday morning, Harvey Weinstein left the First Police Precinct in Manhattan in handcuffs. Several sets of handcuffs, actually, “to accommodate his girth,” police told the New York Times.

By the time Weinstein turned himself into the authorities, the New York City Police Department and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office had spent seven months investigating sexual assault and rape claims against him, and he had been the subject of two Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations that toppled the once-untouchable Hollywood producer — a man whose ring one was all but required to kiss en route to the Oscar stage.

Weinstein has been charged with rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse, and sexual misconduct. (He consistently denies all allegations against him.) Friday afternoon, the Associated Press reports, “He agreed to post $1 million cash bail, wear an electronic monitor, and not travel beyond New York and Connecticut. Weinstein didn’t enter a plea. That’s common at this stage in a criminal case in New York.”

Harvey Weinstein, whose downfall sparked the Me Too movement, arrested and charged with rape – ThinkProgress