A Bible-thumping Seventh Day Adventist pastor shamelessly begged a Queens church secretary for sex despite the fact that both are married — and the organization’s all-powerful leader tried to cover up the scandal, the secretary’s blockbuster lawsuit claims.
Grecia Mena, a staffer at the Jamaica headquarters of the group’s Northeastern Conference, claims in the suit that pastor José Burroughs tried to talk her into the sack for years, despite her protests and complaints.
Mena, 40, says in her suit that the preacher told her that he was accustomed to having women throw themselves at him and could not understand why she didn’t follow suit.
“I don’t understand,” he allegedly said. “Anything I want, I get.”
Burroughs, 53, claimed to wield exquisite bedroom skills and assured his subordinate that he knows how to “have a good time” and knew “different sexual positions,” according to the Brooklyn federal suit.
“You see, there are so many women after me and I want to be with you, but you don’t want me,” he whined to Mena, according to court papers.
The harassment began in 2008 and culminated with Burroughs whipping out his privates in 2011 and asking Mena to perform oral sex on him in a church office, the complaint charges.
Mena, whose husband is a member of the church, finally began complaining about the pastor’s alleged sinful seductions and her accusations reached the organization’s top leader, Daniel Honore.
But instead of disciplining Burroughs, Honore demoted Mena to a lesser position within the church for reduced pay and no benefits.
He also doubled the rent she paid on the church-owned apartment she shares with her husband on Long Island, the lawsuit alleges.
“This is a woman who really cares about doing good in her community through the church,” said Mena’s attorney, Marjorie Mesidor. “It’s just not fair what’s happened to her.”
The church ostracized Mena after she began complaining.
“Since her complaint to defendant Honore, plaintiff Mena has been the subject of continued retaliation,” her suit states.
Burroughs, meanwhile, was never punished and continues to preach the Gospel each Sunday to hundreds of parishioners.
This despite a claim on the group’s Web site that it seeks to “punch holes in the moral darkness into which sin has plunged us.”
Reached by phone, Burroughs and Honore both declined to comment.