TEXAS
WTVR
BY WEB STAFF AND JOE ST. GEORGE
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — Jury selection is slated to begin Monday in Texas for the trial of Georinmo Aguilar, the former pastor at The Richmond Outreach Center (ROC) church in Richmond who was accused of sexually assaulting two sisters in the 1990s. While hundreds of people are on the witness list for the trial, which could last two weeks, supporters are standing by the man known as “Pastor G.”
For Shawanda Allen, who worshiped at The ROC, the allegations are still hard to believe.
“Pastor G of all people he was like the nicest person I ever met,” Allen said. “It shocked me.”
For the last two years Allen and others have waited for the trial which will see Aguilar tried for 12 counts of sexual abuse. Prosecutors allege Aguilar had sex with an 11 and 13-year-old girl repeatedly — including in church vans — when he was living with them as a minister near Fort Worth in the 1990s.
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