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BY RICHARD BROOKS / STAFF WRITER
Published: July 15, 2015
RUNNING SPRINGS: Church youth leader arrested in underage sex case
A 27-year-old Orange County church youth leader was arrested in an underage sex case involving a 13-year-old girl, say San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials.
Fullerton resident Yanho Ren — who goes by Eric Ren — and the girl were in the back of a vehicle parked along a turnout off Highway 330 near Fredalba Road near Running Springs at 11:55 p.m. Sunday, July 12, when California Highway Patrol officers stopped to check on them, sheriff’s officials said in a written statement.
“The victim and Ren told detectives that they began a sexual relationship in May of 2015,” according to the statement. “Investigators have determined that … they engaged in several sexual acts in the counties of Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino.”
For the past two years, Ren has been a youth leader for Evangelical Formosan Church in Rowland Heights and has attended the church since 2006, sheriff’s officials say.
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