A Bronx cop who is also a ⛦minister was arrested Tuesday for using his position at a local church to lure a 16-year-old female paris🃏hioner into having sex with him.
Vladimir Sosa, 38, was busted by𝄹 officers with the Internal Affaꦉirs Bureau and charged with three counts of rape after the teen’s mother discovered incriminating texts between the two, court papers said.
Soꦏsa works out of The Bronx’s 46th Precinct, which patrols the University Heights section.
Sosa met the girl while running a youth program at a church the victim attended, 🀅sources said.
In April 2014 he began having sex with the tee♎n at his Harrod Avenue apartment.
The girl returned to the apartment to have sex with him on June 26 a💜nd Sept. 3, according to a criminal complaint.
In Febru💎ary the victim’s mother 𝄹noticed questionable texts on the girl’s cellphone, police sources said.
The girl then came clean to her mom about her relationship with the church-minister cop, and the mother quickly alerted polic𝐆e.
Cops did not disclose the exact nature of ༒their relaꩲtionship, but sources described it as intimate.
Sources said the two had been romantically invol🐭ved for at least a year𝐆.
Internal Affairౠs had been investigati🃏ng Sosa since February.
According to his Facebook page, he studied tꦕhe🍸ology at the United Christian College in Raleigh, NC.
“That can’t be true,” a m🍌ember of Sosa’s church, the Iglesia Met♕odista El Remanente in Tremont, told The Post.
“He was just helping the girl and giving her spiritual advice. I know Vlad, it can’t be tr🔜ue.”
Police sources said💮 Sosa is a seven-year veteran of the NYPD. He was suspended without pay.
He was charged with three counts of rape, criminal sexual act, two counts of sexual misconduct, endangering 𓆉the welfare of a child and sexual abuse, ♔according to the criminal complaint.
Sosa was released on his own recognizance after being arraigned at Bronx Criminal Court on Tuesday. His next court dat♑e is scheduled for April 17.
Last month, an NYPD sergeant was arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in a 🐻similar relationship. That cop in the past had worked in Sosa’s 46th Precinct.