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PhillyVoice
BY CHRISTINA LOBRUTTO
PhillyVoice Staff
A Chester County pastor accused of raping and impregnating a teenage girl has been arrested, CBSPhilly reports.
Jacob Malone, 33, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers upon his arrival back in the United States at Newark Liberty International Airport.
West Whiteland, Pa. Detective Scott Pezick told People Thursday afternoon that Malone, of Exton, had been in Ecuador for approximately two weeks.
He is expected to face charges of rape, institutional sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minor and furnishing liquor to a child, according to the detective.
Malone reportedly met the victim when she was 12 while he was a pastor at a church she attended in Mesa, Arizona. In 2014, he reached out to the then-17-year-old girl and invited her to stay with him and his family at his new home in Minnesota, where he allegedly tried to have inappropriate contact with her.
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