TEXAS
WRIC
By Kerri O’Brien
Published: June 18, 2015
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas (WRIC) — In a surprise move, the state of Texas rests it’s case against the founder of the ROC Church. Geronimo Aguilar is accused of sexually assaulting two girls in Texas in the late 1990s.
The prosecution’s witness list was long, it originally contained the names of more than 50 people prosecutors planned to call to the stand. Thursday, they were not even half way through the witness list when the state announced it was resting its case.
The decision came after a day of scathing testimony.
Jammie Chasteen, who was Geronimo Aguilar’s’ personal assistant at the ROC Church in Richmond, told the jury, “Yes, I have wired transfers, money orders.”
She testified that on several occasions, the former ROC pastor had her wire what seemed like hush money to one of the alleged victim’s mom.
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