MARYLAND
WJLA
[with video]
BY TOM ROUSSEY, ABC7 TUESDAY, JUNE 21ST 2016
CLINTON, Md. (ABC7) — A woman who says she was the victim of repeated sexual abuse by a pastor when she was 13 and 14 is speaking out to ABC7 — and now that pastor’s church has been ordered to pay $656,000 in damages for pain and suffering.
The alleged victim, who asked us to call her by her first name of Angel, says the sexual abuse happened in 2008. She says “Apostle” Jean Auguste took an interest in her from the time she and her mother joined Abundant Harvest Church, then in Clinton, Maryland when she was 12 years old.
When she was 13, Angel says Auguste invited her and her mother to live with him and his family. Angel says her mother had just left an abusive relationship.
A lawsuit alleges that during a time when all of the adults were out of the house except for Auguste, he entered Angel’s room, touched her inappropriately, then pressured her into losing her virginity by having sexual intercourse, telling her she would be cursed by God if she refused him.
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