Pastor Gets 20 Years For Sex With Minor
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Pastor Reverend Paul Hanniford was today sentenced to 20 years in prison for having sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.
The sentence was handed down by Justice Lorna Shelly Williams when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court.
The Pentecostal City Mission Church pastor was convicted by a seven-member jury, on January 24 of having sexual intercourse with a minor.
According to Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (OFPP) the complainant, who is now 15 years old, testified in court that on March 12, 2015, she and her five-year-old brother went to the church for choir practice and after the rehearsal they asked Pastor Hanniford for a drive out in his van.
The pastor took the children to his house in Kingston and all three went inside the house.
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