Self-Proclaimed Pastor will Serve Prison Term for Assault of Child

A Roslindale man who represented himself as a pastor will serve up to 12 years in state prison for sexual assaults on a girl in her young teens.

According to a recent press release, a Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted 41-year-old Epiphane Lazarre on Nov. 5 of two counts of aggravated rape of a child under 14 and one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 for assaults from 2012.

Assistant District Attorney Laura Montgomery introduced evidence and testimony proving that Lazarre used his existing relationship with the child’s family to isolate her from her parents. Though he represented himself as a pastor to the girl and her relatives, he was not affiliated with any church.

Between November and December 2012, the evidence proved, Lazarre repeatedly assaulted the girl at his home in a Washington Street rooming house and refused to let her speak with her family. Boston Police removed the victim from that residence in December and, after further investigation, arrested him in early January 2013.

He was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison and 10 years of probation upon his release.

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