JAMAICA
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An elder in a Seventh Day Adventist Church in St Mary was arrested Tuesday night for having sex with a minor.
He was reportedly taken into custody by the Port Maria Police after a probe by the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA).
The alleged victim is reportedly a 14-year-old girl.
News of the development broke as two former leaders of the Moravian church in Jamaica – Rev Dr Paul Gardner, former president of the church body, and his ex-deputy Jermaine Gibson – appeared in a Manchester court on Wednesday facing charges of having sex with a girl when she was aged 12 and 14.
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