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| Pastor Solomon with his congregation |
Wednesday 50 year old Pastor Gordon Solomon A local spiritual leader shocked and devastated his congregation when he was arrested for allegedly engaging in a two-year sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
The Police said:
The relationship between Gordon Solomon, pastor at Christ's Community Church of LA in Inglewood, Calif., and his young congregant began when the girl was only 12 years old.
He was alleged to have "developed an ongoing affinity" for the girl, which involved exchanging emails and texts of a "sexual nature" and meeting at various locations, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
He met his waterloo when the young girl's mother discovered one of the explicit text messages from Solomon and immediately called the police. Investigators then determined that the relationship had been going on for two years by tracing back the sexting messages on the girl's phone.
The minister has been charged Friday with seven felony counts of committing a lewd act on a child, one felony count of oral copulation of a person under the age of 14 and one felony count of continuous sexual abuse, the District Attorney announced.
If convicted as charged, Solomon who is currently in jail on $3 million bail, faces a maximum sentence of 26 years and eight month in state prison, the District Attorney says. He is expected to make his initial court appearance Friday at the Inglewood Courthouse.
Why a happily married man with a beautiful family would do this kind of act remains a mystery.
Goal of his church: it goes this way:
"to increase awareness of Almighty God and spread the word that Jesus saves."
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