Pastor 'raped girl since she was seven years old before she got pregnant at 16'



A pastor has been charged after a woman claimed to the police that he has been raping her since she was seven-years-old.

Robert L. Carter, 39, has been arrested and is being held on a $100,000 bond at Harris County Jail in Texas for allegedly sexually abusing her for 12 years. The girl, now 22, told police that it all began with him disrobing in front of her, exposing himself to her, and bribing her with candy.

She said that one night when she was seven years old, the pastor walked into her bedroom and made her perform oral sex to him. After that night, raping became a regular occurrence, almost every day, she said, according to court documents.

The court documents allege Carter would force himself on the young girl while other family members were sleeping. The girl also said that when Carter would drive her to school, he would stop on the way at an H-E-B store and sexually abuse her in the parking lot.

Sometimes, she said, he made her watch pornography. The pastor also sexually abused her at the Greater Bible Way Church in Sunnyside, Houston, where he worked.

The gruesome details the girl revealed don't end there, as, according to a criminal complaint, the girl said that the pastor impregnated her when she was 16, and she gave birth to a baby boy in a closet which the pastor then surrendered to a fire station. The baby has since been adopted, she said.

The sexual assaults continued until the girl was 19, according to her account. The girl claimed that the assaults occurred at least 600 times. "It happened a lot over the years," she told police.

At one point, the girl told Carter she was "not doing this anymore," and he got mad and threatened her by saying, "if you don’t do this, I promise you’re going to regret it. I’m going to make your life a living hell," court documents allege.


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