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	Brooklyn Pastor Hit with $30m Sex Abuse Suit; "Again?" Pastor's Wife Asks By John Marzulli New York Daily News August 29, 2009 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/08/29/2009-08-29_bklyn_pastor_hit_with_30m_sex_abuse_suit.html The pastor of a Pentacostal church in Brooklyn sexually abused a female employee and then fired her after she rebuffed his advances, the woman's $30 million lawsuit charges. The Rev. Victor Figueroa fondled the woman and tried to pull off her clothes last October 2008 in an apartment she shared with her husband in the basement of the Iglesia Pentecostal Jesus El Camino Verdadero Church on Tilden Ave., according to the complaint filed Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court. The 39-year-old woman told the pastor's wife what happened and she responded, "Again?" the complaint states. The Daily News is withholding her name because she's the victim of a sex crime. The couple, who had been maintenance workers at the church for three years, was fired in April. The woman reported the attack to the Police Department, and Figueroa was charged with misdemeanor sexual abuse, criminal trespass and harassment. Figueroa, 54, could not be reached for comment. The suit also seeks back pay because the couple's only compensation was the one-room basement apartment.
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