ALABAMA
The Raw Story
By David Edwards
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
An Alabama pastor was arrested last week after being accused of taking a 13-year-old girl to a church and raping her.
According to authorities in Jefferson County, the girl’s mother said that Pastor Tyrone Banks, Sr. had offered to watch her daughter while she attended an event on Saturday, April 12.
The girl told her mother that Banks drove her to a church in Hueytown, where he claimed he worked as an associate pastor, WSFA reported.
“He had a key to the church and took the victim inside to the kitchen where he sexually assaulted her,” Chief Deputy Randy Christian explained.
The girl later reported the assault to her mother, who called the police.
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