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SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City pastor has been accused of raping a girl in his congregation for several years.
Isidor Pacomio Archibeque, 44, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with two counts of aggravated sexual assault, rape, forcible sodomy and object rape, all first-degree felonies; and two counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony.
Salt Lake police said Archibeque surrendered to authorities on Wednesday.
Between late 2014 and July 2017, the victim told police “she was systematically raped by and forced to perform other sexual acts upon Isidor Archibeque,” according to a search warrant affidavit.
The abuse began when the girl was 14, according to charging documents. Archibeque is accused of forcing the girl to have sex with him “several times a month without her consent.”
On one occasion, he threatened to hurt the girl’s family if she told anyone what had happened, according to charging documents. In another incident, Archibeque strangled the girl as he raped her, and on another occasion “punched her in the chest” before sexually assaulting her, the charges state.
The girl’s family “confirmed that there were many incidents where Archibeque had access to (her) by picking her up at school and through church activities.”
The charges do not identify Archibeque’s church.
A $500,000 warrant was issued for his arrest. If he is able to post bail after being arrested, prosecutors have also requested that he be forced to wear a GPS monitor, have no contact with the victim, a witness or any children, according to court documents.
