TEXAS/VIRGINIA
WTVR
BY SANDRA JONES
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — The former pastor of the Richmond Outreach Center (ROC) Geronimo Aguilar has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing children, inside a Texas courtroom Tuesday.
Aguilar, known locally as Pastor G, faced life in prison for two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. In addition to three counts of sexual assault of a child under 17 and two counts of indecency with a child.
A judge sentence Aguilar to 40 years on count one and two, and 20 years on counts three through seven. The counts will be served concurrently.
A Texas jury found Aguilar guilty of sex crimes against two sisters who he started to abuse when they were 11 and 13 years old. The girls, now women, said they were abused in the 1990s while Aguilar was a pastor at their church in Texas. Aguilar’s attorneys have repeatedly said the pastor was innocent and vow to appeal.
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