A Brockton pastor is accused of assaulting a 5-year-old boy during bible study, according to Brockton Police.
Police say the pastor told officers he nudged the child with two fingers out of frustration in order to get his attention.
However, the boy's father believes far worse happened, with a picture of his child's red face as his proof.
"From a little nudge to the face to that, doesn't add up," Vernon Ford, Jr. said. "One plus one is not three."
In the three years the father attended Winner's City Church in Brockton, he says he never had a reason to question his trust in pastor Onyedikachi Enebechi.
However, that changed when he said his 5-year-old son told him he was slapped by the pastor during bible study last Sunday for talking to his cousin when he was supposed to be quiet.
"Kind of loss for words," Ford, Jr. said. "Proceeded to ask him what was going on, I did cuss him out."
Ford, Jr. said the child's mother, who was in a different room at the church at the time, took a photo shortly thereafter to document the redness on their son's cheek before calling police to press charges.
"Me, his mom, his uncles don't do that to him," the father said. "So, no one outside of that barrier is going to do that to him neither."
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No one was at the church when Boston 25 News went for comment, and no response has been sent to a request for comment.
While police confirmed the 37-year-old pastor faces simple assault and battery charges, Ford, Jr. is waiting for more answers with a clear decision that his son won't be attending the church ever again.
"He doesn't want to go back to that church," the father said. "He's very upset. Nobody can go around smacking somebody else's child and it's okay."
Enebechi is set to be summonsed to court at a later date.
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