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Washington, D.C., cop and preacher charged with sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl: cops

A Washington, D.C., cop and preacher has been locked up, charged with sexually abusing a teenage girl from his church.

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Darrell Best, 45, on Monday night, two days after a 16-year-old congregant of God Of A Second Chance Ministry came forward as an alleged victim, police announced late Monday.

“She felt intimidated to the point that she couldn’t resist,” the girl’s father, who did not want to be identified, told WTTG-TV, the first to report the allegations.

Another church member, who is now 18, said that Best groomed her, offering to help her begin a career in law enforcement, then taking her to dinner in December 2014 and, later that night, to D.C. police headquarters, where she alleged he forced her to perform sexual acts, WTTG reported.

“I told him ‘No’ on multiple occasions, plenty of times,“ the woman told the TV station. “And he was armed and I didn’t know what he could’ve had up his sleeve.”

Best, a 25-year veteran of the force and the pastor of the Southern Ave. SE church, has been placed on administrative leave, The Washington Post reported.

Authorities collared Best in Largo, Md., and he’s currently in jail at the D.C. Department of Corrections, department officials said.

Darrell Best of God of Second Chance Ministries accused of raping 16 and 18 year-old girls in Washington DC in December 2014.

Best noted the charges “are only allegations and when or if there is an appropriate time, I will comment further,” he said in a statement sent to WTTG. The station also quoted Best’s mother as saying that her son resigned his position at the church.