Dr Paul Gardner and Jermaine Gibson were today charged following investigations by detectives from the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA).
The men have been arrested and charged with carnal abuse and indecent assault.
Both men are senior members of the Moravian Church, the same church as Rupert Clarke who was charged with rape after he was in December allegedly caught having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
It is alleged that one of the men had a sexual relationship with a minor as far back as 2002, when the alleged victim was a 12 year-old girl, while the other allegedly, later also developed a sexual relationship with the teen.
Dr Gardner quit as president of the Moravian Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands earlier this month amid allegations of sexual misconduct within theorganisation. Gibson, who was his deputy, also resigned.
Accoding to the Jamaica Observer, the attorney-at-law representing the men stated that his clients said the accusations are being done “out of sheer malice, with the intention of destroying their good name.”
They are steadfast in their declarations of innocence and having regard to the circumstances we have been instructed to file suit for defamation, malicious prosecution and false imprisonment,” the attorney’s law firm said in a statement.
