A Pennsylvania pastor is being hunted by the police for the rape of a teenage girl who lived with him and his wife.
The West Whiteland Township Police Department is looking for Jacob "Jake" Malone, 33, from Exton, Pennsylvania, who worked as a staff at Calvary Fellowship church in Downington, said Pastor Bill Bateman, according to Philly.com.
According to the police, the female victim said she met Malone at a church in Mesa, Arizona when she was 12. At the time, Malone was a pastor at the church that the victim attended.
In June 2014, Malone contacted the 17-year-old victim and invited her to stay with him and his family in Minnesota where he was a pastor.
She said that was the time when Malone started to have inappropriate contact with her. The following month, Malone moved his family to Chester County and invited her again to live with him. He even registered her at a local high school.
The victim said Malone began sexually assaulting her in the fall of 2014 while she was living at his home in Exton. She attended the church where Malone was the pastor at the time.
She said Malone gave her alcohol on two occasions after she turned 18 and during one incident, Malone raped her while she was highly intoxicated.
According to NBC Philadelphia, the victim is pregnant with Malone's baby.
A post on Facebook by the Calvary Fellowship said "we share in your pain over the recent unfolding events in the life of our church."
"Safety has been a constant concern at Calvary for years. Every staff person (as well as every volunteer who has any contact with children) is thoroughly background checked and, if meeting certain criteria, fingerprinted by the State of PA. Jake Malone passed every check and participated in every educational forum," it said.
Malone, the church said, "flew completely under the radar, deceiving even those who were closest to him. We know this is hard to imagine, but we assure you that no one suspected anything until very recently."
As soon as it got information, the church said it reported it to the authorities.
"We continue to work with the authorities. They have never asked us to do anything that violates our conscience or the prescription for dealing with this kind of sin as laid out in scripture. Counselling has been ongoing with those closest to the situation and has been offered more recently to others who are greatly impacted by these events," the church said.
