W. Tulsa pastor arrested for rape

TPD Sex Crimes detectives arrested Allen R. Jeffers, 63, in connection to the rape of a 15-year-old girl who is mentally challenged. Police say Jeffers is a pastor at Summer Park Full Gospel Church in West Tulsa. (Tulsa County Jail )

Reported by: Abbie Alford

Reported by: Danica Lawrence

Email: Danica Lawrence

Updated: 10/31/2011 5:55 pm

Published: 10/29/2011 1:11 pm

A DNA match helped police arrest a West Tulsa pastor accused of raping a teenager. Tulsa Sex Crimes detectives arrested Allen Ray Jeffers, 68.

Detectives believe he raped a 15-year-old mentally challenged girl. They say a DNA profile from the teen's assault matched Jeffers, who is a convicted felon in California.

Police said on September 6th, the girl walked away from her school in East Tulsa. They claim Jeffers, who didn't know the girl, picked her up and took her to an area near 5th and N. Mingo and sexually assaulted her, then dropped her off at a North Tulsa McDonald's where she flagged down someone for a ride home.

DNA was recovered in a sexual assault exam after the girl reported the assault. Detectives say Jeffers has been in Tulsa since 2000 and preaches at Summit Park Full Gospel Church in West Tulsa. They say in California he was convicted of indecent exposure and lewd molestation, a number of years ago.

FOX23 talked to a long-time friend of Jeffers, who didn't want to give a name.

"Completely shocked," said the friend. "Not the man of God that I personally know."

The friend has known Jeffers for 15 years.

"Been around kids at camps and stuff, never seen nothing," said the friend. "Church functions, never seen nothing; skating parties, never seen nothing. I just couldn't believe it. That's not the person he portrayed. That's not the person I've ever seen."

The person we spoke with thought of Jeffers as more than a pastor, but as someone who was there when members of the congregation went through rough times.

"Never felt a wrong spirit about him. I would think that I would feel something like that."

Jeffers is being held in the Tulsa County Jail on $100,000 bond. Detectives encourage anyone who knows Jeffers or has any information about potential victims to call police.

Police say DNA evidence helped greatly in this case. They encourage victims of sexual assaults to be examined immediately for any evidence to help catch the predator.

Phone messages have been left with the Summit Park Full Gospel Church. Those calls were not returned.

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f409629 - 11/2/2011 11:28 PM

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I knew this man in California. He was a creep then and is still a creep. He did things back then that people didn't take serious. Wow look what happened 25 years later. I hope you burn in HELL. You make me sick Paster Jeffers.

CalNevaOkie - 10/31/2011 4:46 PM

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My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family. She is a child, an innocent child that this pervert attacked and you people are more concerned with typos, what church he pastors at and say the parents should be arrested!! You think her parents WANTED that for their daughter???? As for the sick pervert that did this to that innocent girl, oh you will get yours in prison. And spend eternity in Hell where you belong. Pastor, yeah right. If that's how religion works count me and my family out.

watchdog11 - 10/31/2011 1:43 PM

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This is why there needs to be some way of tracking these predators from one state to the next, I hope someone takes care of this sick b*****d, not just a child, but a mentally challenged child! I will be surprized if he even does time though, he obviously didn't spend time in jail in California, and probably won't here either with our justice system.

beckybeez - 10/31/2011 6:05 AM

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This crime happen across the street from me and I also attended Summit I had no idea that it was him when dectives knocked on my door asking if I seen anything strange or a dark green van and that a girl had been raped that it would turn out to be him. My prayers are with the little girl and her family and Sister Jeffers. Just so shocked!

saddened - 10/30/2011 2:18 PM

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There will be other crimes linked to this horrible monster. Once detectives start comparing his vehicle(and past vehicles) to crimes in other towns around Tulsa. Look up dmv records and talk to neighbors about hie other vehicles. Mostly lewd behavior and voyeurism, young girls between 10-15. Unfortunately, he was a registered sex offender in Ca but never registered on OK, he has lived on OK for 20 years plus, look up his past addresses. We need to track these type of monsters state to state. I hope he dies for these crimes.

boomermama - 10/30/2011 10:47 AM

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First off.. any child can walk away from school, that's not hard, and any child can sneak out or walk away from their parent.. anyone with teenager kids knows this.. AnyChild should be able to walk around without this happening regardless so who cares why the child walked away from school or her parents or whatever!! Get a crip, it's totally not related to the fact that this man is a predator with a past as a predator!! DNA is pretty dmaning in todays day with the advances in this science so i hope this man rots in jail! And that is to good for him... Anyone who takes advantage of a child doesn't deserve to even live!

kindagreywolf - 10/29/2011 8:34 PM

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Wow! A child is raped and more people are worried abut typos! WTF?

MomInSchool - 10/29/2011 8:29 PM

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Need more light to be shined on a student walking out of schools .. try Union allowing a teacher of an ER1 class (special education self contained class) to allow my third grade, autistic son, to go unsupervised and without permission to go to the bathroom! He did not have to ask, he only had to 'sign out' because the teacher 'didn't want to be bothered all day with requests to go to the bathroom! He DID get out one day and I just happened to be coming by the school to drop something off (he had no idea I was coming, I didn't know till I had to take it ..so it's not like he was looking for me!) We just got lucky that was the worst of the incidents!

ACMomOf3 - 10/29/2011 7:25 PM

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This story is very sad! I'm really glad they caught the guy! Not sure why one of the commenters thinks the parents should be arrested, though. I didn't read anything in the article that would lead me to believe they were negligent in any way. The story says that the girl walked away from the school. It did not say school was over. Perhaps the school's at fault for not properly supervising her. Many mentally challenged people have issues with wandering off. And as the mother of a severely autistic teen who is a TPS student, I can tell you that I have expressed my concerns many times to the ESC about the need for more para's in all secondary Intellectually Disabled classrooms. Besides students wandering off, there are many other situations, problems & emergencies that can & do arise all the time... 1 teacher & 1 para is simply not always enough to care for a classroom full of intellectually disabled students. No idea if that's what happened here, but it wouldn't surprise me.

AAlford - 10/29/2011 7:04 PM

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**Correction** Police say it is *Summit* Park Full Gospel Church in West Tulsa

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