Brooklyn Pastor Sentenced to 14 Years for Raping 11-Year-Old Girl
A Brooklyn pastor, Paul Lewis, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl. The assaults occurred in East New York and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, between September and December 2014.
New York, NY, October 26, 2026 —
Brooklyn pastor Paul Lewis has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl, according to the information provided. The assaults took place in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of East New York and Bedford-Stuyvesant between September and December 2014.
The available information does not specify when Lewis was sentenced or identify the court, judge or prosecutor involved. It also does not provide details about the case’s investigation, charges, trial or plea proceedings. No information was provided about whether the sentence includes additional terms or how it is to be served.
The reported period of the assaults spans four months in 2014. The summary identifies two locations in Brooklyn but does not specify the addresses or describe how the incidents were divided between the neighborhoods. It also does not provide information about the victim beyond her age at the time.
Lewis is identified as a pastor, but no congregation or religious organization is named. The information provided does not describe any response from a church, the victim’s family or law enforcement agencies, and it does not state whether further legal proceedings are expected.
The reported sentence marks the latest known development in the case. Further details about the legal proceedings and the timing of the sentence were not included in the information available for this report.
Story summarized from the original created by By Gabriele Holtermann on www.amny.com, see more information here.
