Ex-Detroit pastor Flowers sentenced to 4-15 years in sex assault case

• As a consequence of a plea, the pastor – and the sufferer – might keep away from a course of.
• Kenneth Flowers was accused of sexual abuse of a then 17 years outdated.

A as soon as distinguished predecessor of a big, Wayne County Church who entered a plea for No Contest was convicted on Thursday within the Circuit Court docket of Oakland County in reference to accusations of sexual violence in Farmington Hills through which an adolescent was concerned.

“At the moment’s punishment signifies that Kenneth Flowers is held chargeable for his actions,” stated Oakland County Officer Karen McDonald. “Our focus all through all the course of was to supply a simply consequence for the sufferer.”

Flowers, the 64-year-old former pastor of Larger new Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church In Detroit, 4-15 years in jail will likely be positioned and positioned within the register of intercourse offenders in Michigan.

In some ways it was a fall from the grace for an outdated man of the canvas who was as soon as stored so excessive that preaching to have fun for 1 / 4 of a century have been current.

By means of an settlement with the prosecution, Flowers was sentenced to 2 counts of third -degree legal sexual behavioral energy or coercion. Different counts of first grade legal sexual conduct and kidnapping of the kidnapping have been basically withdrawn.

The plea allowed flowers – and the sufferer – to stop a course of.

A plea with no competitors additionally has no precise admission of emotions of guilt, which is in step with feedback he made virtually a yr in the past to unencumber “on the guard” columnist ml Elrick. His comment to the journalist: “I deny all these fees, and that’s all I’ve to say.”

Flowers refused to concern a press release within the courtroom.

In line with Elrick’s report, which was paved on police and judicial information, Flowers was accused of attacking a then 17-year-old on December 20, 2023 and arrested. {The teenager} lived within the Farmington Hills district of the pastor.

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As soon as flowers have been described on the web site of the Grote Detroit Church as ‘a group/social activist for human rights points’. He has been a pastor since 1995 and adopted the Benjamin Hooks Reverend, an extended -term NAACP director.

Flowers, Elrick additionally wrote in his column, was recognized for his outreach to leaders of different religions. The web site of his church known as him the “first pastor ever at Larger New Mt. Moriah to allow ladies and to manage the preaching operation and to manage ladies as deacons.”

The web site additionally stated, in keeping with the column, that when he celebrated a preaching for 25 years, his gala was proven in Jet Journal and Coretta Scott King, the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Gov. Jennifer Granholm confirmed up.

And, Elrick observed, though the previous pastor didn’t serve for a very long time, Flowers was “stored in so excessive” that mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan had appointed him to serve within the moral council of town.

Please contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 orfwitsil@freepress.com.