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Star-Telegram
BY MITCH MITCHELL
mitchmitchell@star-telegram.com
A woman who said she was repeatedly raped by a charismatic pastor more than 18 years ago hesitated Tuesday as she pointed at the accused.
She cringed from the witness stand while she described an item of his clothing.
Testifying under the pseudonym April Moore, the 32-year-old woman said Geronimo Aguilar first noticed her when she was 11 or 12 and living in California.
“He got me a sweatshirt with a gorilla or a monkey on it,” Moore testified. “He was the cool guy so getting a gift from him was a big deal.”
Aguilar, now 45, is the former music minister of a church in Fort Worth and former pastor of a megachurch in Richmond, Va.
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