Here's something every mother of a 14-year-old girl fears: finding e-mails to her from the family's 44-year-old church pastor saying, “Okay, picture dis. U making out with me n my lips are really cracked n dry. As u pull away a lil piece of skin gets stuck 2 u” and, “There are no ways to describe the most gorgeous, beautiful and bootylicious girl I know.”
Ricardo Avalos Maffey of Santa Ana was found guilty by a jury Monday of sending those e-mails and–worse–kissing the girl at prayer services and in his office at Apostolic Christian Church in San Clemente. He went on to touch her leg and butt and try to set up a meeting for sex.
As you'd expect from this Man of Fraud, he tried to blame the 14-year-old for coming on to him.
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The jury didn't buy it. Maffey was convicted on five felony counts of lewd acts
upon a child and one felony count of contacting a minor with the intent
to engage in child molestation.
He could get up to six years leading the prayer service in
state prison at his April 15 sentencing in Santa Ana.
Here's the Orange County district attorney's office's statement on Maffey's conviction:
March 14, 2011
PASTOR CONVICTED OF MOLESTING 14-YEAR-OLD FEMALE PARISHIONER AND SENDING VICTIM SEXUAL E-MAILS
SANTA ANA – A Protestant pastor of the Apostolic Christian Church in San
Clemente was convicted today of molesting a 14-year-old female
parishioner that he met through his job. Ricardo Avalos Maffey, 44,
Santa Ana, was found guilty by a jury of five felony counts of lewd acts
upon a child and one felony count of contacting a minor with the intent
to engage in child molest. He faces a maximum sentence of six years in
state prison at his sentencing April 15, 2011, in Department C-41,
Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.
Maffey met 14-year-old Jane Doe through his role as a pastor and began
grooming the victim by spending time alone with her while the victim was
volunteering in the church office.
Between May 2008 and August 2008, the defendant violated his position of
trust by engaging in illegal sexual contact with Jane Doe. On multiple
occasions, Maffey kissed Jane Doe on the mouth while the two were alone
after prayer service or in the church office. The defendant also
inappropriately touched the victim's leg and buttocks for his sexual
gratification.
During this time, the defendant sent numerous e-mails to the victim to
arrange future meetings and disclose his sexual urges. The defendant
wrote statements including, “Okay, picture dis. U making out with me n
my lips are really cracked n dry. As u pull away a lil piece of skin
gets stuck 2 u,” and, “There are no ways to describe the most gorgeous,
beautiful and bootylicious girl I know.”
The victim's mother discovered some of the e-mails and contacted the church. The church contacted the police.
During the trial, Jane Doe testified that Maffey instructed her to
delete his e-mails to prevent her parents from reading them and told her
to e-mail him at work so that his wife would not discover the e-mails
on his personal e-mail account.
Evidence was presented during the trial that Maffey confessed to the
unlawful sexual conduct to police officers. The defendant testified in
court, however, that he had not engaged in any unlawful sexual contact
with the victim. Maffey denied kissing Jane Doe on the lips and claimed
that he had previously kissed the victim on the forehead and cheek as
part of Pentecostal practice. He also said that on one occasion Jane Doe
unexpectedly kissed him, but it ended quickly and he was not the
instigator.
The Orange County Sheriff's Department investigated this case. Deputy
District Attorney
Jennifer Walker of the Sexual Assault Unit is
prosecuting this case.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.