Sex assault claim a ‘crock,’ ex-pastor’s lawyer says

CANADA
Toronto Sun

Tracy McLaughlin, Special to the Sun

First posted: Thursday, January 19, 2012

ORANGEVILLE – A woman accusing a former Toronto pastor of a bizarre sex assault concocted the story out of revenge, a defence lawyer charged yesterday.

Jae-Kap Song, an Orangeville grocer and once-pastor of the now-closed Canada Jesus First Church, near Steeles and Islington Aves., is on trial for the alleged sexual assault of a member of his congregation — a university student from Korea here on a student visa.

“It’s all a crock,” defence lawyer Christophe Preobrazenski said in closing arguments in Orangeville Superior court Thursday.

Earlier in the trial the woman, who can not be identified, wept as she testified how Song told her she was possessed by evil spirits and that he needed to examine her naked body to see if her skin was turning green.

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