Daily News | A North Philly pastor accused of sexually abusing three people faced his victims in court
Rev. Mark Hatcher , the pastor at Holy Ghost Headquarters, arrives to a preliminary hearing in Blue Bell on Thursday with his defense attorney Robert Gamburg. Hatcher has been charged with sexually assaulting three people, including a former parishioner, when they were children.Three alleged victims of a North Philadelphia pastor’s sexual abuse described a similar pattern Thursday as they relived the details of the encounters in court.
Another young man broke down as he recalled the five incidents starting in 2007 where Hatcher abused him at that same house, his already soft-spoken voice failing several times.the leader of Holy Ghost Headquarters, a Pentecostal church that worships inside The Met on North Broad Street Later, after having dinner in New Jersey, the two stopped to check on a house being renovated in Brewerytown that at the time was owned by the church. They walked into the house, the arrest affidavit said, and the girl sat on an old mattress while Hatcher examined a light switch. Hatcher then walked over, pinned her down, and raped her, covering her mouth as she tried to scream for help, according to the affidavit.
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