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	More Child Sex Charges for “pastor” By Patrick George The Statesman December 27, 2011 http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2011/12/27/more_child_sex_charges_for_pas.html A “traveling pastor” who was charged with sexual crimes against children earlier this year has been charged again after another accuser came forward, according to court documents. Francisco Antonio Hernandez, 53, was charged last week with indecency with a child by contact, a second-degree felony, according to an arrest affidavit filed with Travis County courts today. In October, Hernandez was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by sexual contact. Police have said that Hernandez, also known as Pastor Javier, traveled to private homes in the Austin area to hold services for a nondenominational church that had no name. The church was led by Hernandez, with services six or seven nights a week that entailed reading from the Bible and singing, police have said. Hernandez led services as early as the early 1990s and as recently as August of this year, detectives said. Four women came forward earlier this year to say that Hernandez had sexual contact with them as children. The latest charge against Hernandez comes from a woman who came forward in July. That woman told police that Hernandez, whom she knew as “Pastor,” sexually abused her when she was 7, the affidavit said. The woman told police that she and her two sisters stayed with Hernandez and his wife in 1988 when their mother had to go out of town for an emergency, the affidavit said. She said Hernandez sexually abused her in his bedroom, the affidavit said. The woman said she told her mother about the abuse in 1998 or 1999; the affidavit does not say whether the mother reported it. A few days before the victim reported the abuse to police this summer, Hernandez came to the victim’s mother’s home to ask for forgiveness, the affidavit said. She told him to leave, the affidavit said. His bail has been set at $220,000, and he has also been detained for immigration reasons, jail records show.
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