Church’s part-time youth worker accused of molesting teen girl

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By Austin L. Miller
Staff writer
Published: Thursday, February 27, 2014

A part-time student ministry intern at Church at the Springs was arrested Wednesday, accused of lewd and lascivious behavior with a teenage girl on church property.

Daniel A. Dominguez, 21, was booked into the Marion County Jail Wednesday evening and was released on $10,000 bond, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. He has since been fired from that job.

The 15-year-old girl was interviewed at Kimberly’s Center for Child Protection in Ocala, according to a Marion County Sheriff’s Office report. She told an investigator that on Feb. 21, while at the church, she was helping with preparation for an upcoming event.

She said Dominguez asked her to help clean water jugs and she accompanied him into the kitchen. There, she said, while joking around, she called him gay. She said Dominguez told her he was not gay and that he could prove it.

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