Crime

A Vodou Priest Arrested for Pedophilia and Illegal Detention

JACMEL, Haiti (defend.ht) - Police in Jacmel (South-east of Haiti) arrested on April 3 the voodoo priest Rodolph Jean Louis. This man has been charged with rape, pedophilia and sequestration by three young boys of nine years on average.

Presented to the press on April 10, these children showed what the voodoo priest of fifty seven years old made them suffer, according to bonzouti.com, local press agency.

"I often told him he was hurting me, but he just told me to extend my a***, and then he put his p*** in my (expletive)," told police Tuesday that one of the young victims.

"He told me to stroke his nipples to make him c***”, added another.

The children recognize, however, that Rodolph Jean Louis, the pedophile, fed them well. Abandoned in the streets, the voodoo priest offered them a place to sleep; he presented himself as their benefactor.

One of them was even sent to school by the houngan (voodoo priest).

Rodolph Jean Louis unreservedly rejects the accusations of children. "I never practice homosexuality with children'' has hammered the father of seven.

The spokesman for police in the south-east, Jacques Petit Oneccifort, explained to the public that the arrest of alleged pedophile and rapist is the result of work of the Juvenile Police of southeast.

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