Chester County Pastor And Accused Rapist Fled To Ecuador, Will Surrender

A Chester County pastor wanted for raping and impregnating a teen girl has fled to Ecuador, and will surrender, according to a report.

Jacob Malone, 33, of Exton, is expected to turn himself in later this week, his attorneys told police, Philly.com reports.

Authorities pressed charges against Malone last week and announced their search for him on Monday, after they believed he had fled the area.

Malone was a pastor in Minnesota when he invited a 17-year-old girl to live with him, according to the West Whiteland Police Department. The two initially had met when the girl was 12 at the pastor’s old church in Mesa, Arizona.

In June 2014 the girl moved to Minnesota, and Malone attempted inappropriate contact, police said.

They moved to Chester County the next month, and Malone registered the girl in a local high school.

The sexual assaults began in the fall of 2014 at Malone’s residence on Atherton Drive, according to police.

Malone allegedly gave her alcohol multiple times after she turned 18, and one of the molestations occurred after she had become drunk.

Malone is wanted for charges of rape and institutional sexual assault, among other offenses.

>>See Patch’s original reporting on this case here.