A Queens pastor was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison
for raping two girls in the basement of his church, Nydailynews reports.
Reuben
Chizor’s victims were 12- and 14-year-old sisters and members of his
Hope Restoration Ministries congregation in Queens Village. “The
defendant took advantage of his position as a man of the cloth and the
trust placed in him by his followers to satisfy his depraved desires. .
Through
manipulation and conniving control, he sexually abused his two young
victims for nearly two years,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown
said. .
“What the defendant forced his
victims to endure was horrendous — and as punishment he now will be
spending a lengthy term behind bars.” Trial testimony last month
revealed that on July 27, 2011, Chizor took the 14-year-old victim to
the church basement, where he lived, and raped her. .
On
Aug. 22, 2011, he raped the 12-year-old. Chizor, 56, continued abusing
one or both of the girls through May 2013, Brown said. .
In July 2015, the girls confided in each other they’d been raped by Chizor, and police were notified.
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