By Wayne K. Roustan
Sun Sentinel
September 20, 2011
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| Pastor Dieugrand Jacques was convicted of molesting a girl, 15, in 2007. (Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, courtesy) |
The 40-year-old pastor of a Boynton Beach church was convicted on Tuesday of sexually molesting a teenage girl, according to Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe.
Dieugrand Jacques, of Lake Worth, was the pastor of the New Alliance Haitian Church in Boynton Beach at the time of the crime, investigators said.
On May 22, 2007, Jacques, in his capacity as a pastor at the victim's church, invited her to his home under the pretense of counseling her for family and relationship problems. While at Jacques' house, the then-15-year-old victim was molested, according to court documents.
A second girl, who was 14 at the time, testified that Jacques molested her inside the church where services were held. She said Jacques asked her to confide in him about a prior molestation and then he had sexual relations with her, according to trial testimony.
Prosecutors said no formal charges were filed against Jacques on behalf of the second teenager.
Jacques is facing up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on Oct. 21 for the lewd or lascivious molestation conviction, prosecutors said.
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