CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland pastor is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl at an East Side motel after the girl ran away from school.

David Mathis, the pastor of the former Courts of Praise Church in Collinwood, is charged with rape. He is jailed on $50,000 bond after his first court appearance on Monday.

Mathis has been the pastor the church since the 1990s, according to court records and filings with the Ohio Secretary of State. The church was located in Cleveland Heights until 2007, when Mathis moved it to a building in the 700 block of East 159th Street, according to state filings.

Deacon Jay Redd of the Garden of Prayers Ministries said his church now operates out of the building that Mathis previously used for Courts of Praise.

Redd said Mathis has no affiliation with Garden of Prayers church, despite a Sept. 26 filing with the state Secretary of State renewing Courts of Praise's business license for the same address.

Attempts to reach officials with Courts of Praise in person and on the phone were unsuccessful. No attorney is listed for Mathis in court records.

Mathis also operates a cafe by the same name inside the Windermere RTA Rapid Station in East Cleveland. The cafe was closed on Tuesday.

The girl met Mathis at the cafe on Nov. 9 after she left school when she was supposed to serve an after-school detention, according to police reports.

The girl's mother reported her missing and Cleveland police searched for her without finding her.

Mathis told the girl he was a pastor during their conversation, court records say. He offered to help the girl by letting her work at his cafe for the day, the girl's mother said.

"He told her he was a pastor to gain her trust," the girl's mother said.

That night, he drove her from the Rapid station to the American Motel on Euclid Avenue, about three miles away, according to police reports. Mathis is accused of raping the girl twice at the motel, court records say.

He then drove the girl to one of her friend's house and dropped her off, the girl's mother said. The girl's mother and Cleveland police went to the friend's home, where she reported the rape to police.

"He took her to a hotel and took advantage of her and dropped her off like she was nothing," the girl's mother said.

The girl was taken to Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital for treatment and for a sexual assault examination. Mathis was later arrested at his cafe, police reports say.

The girl's mother said in an interview that her daughter can't sleep and is seeing a counselor. She said her daughter is afraid for her safety if Mathis gets out of jail.

"He took away my daughter's childhood away, he took her happiness away, her confidence," the girl's mother said. "He took away a lot of those things and I'm not sure if she'll ever get it back. He's supposed to be a man of God and he took advantage of my daughter, a 12-year-old."

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