BAKERSFIELD (CA)
KGET
Posted 05/31/05
BAKERSFIELD - A self-proclaimed pastor who was twice acquitted of child molestation charges has been arrested again in a new case alleging sexual abuse.
Leonard Simental, 43, is back in the downtown jail in lieu of $250,000 bail.
He has been charged with five new felonies.
He was charged in November with molesting a girl who went to the east Bakersfield church where he claimed to be a pastor.
Last month, a jury ruled he was not guilty of that felony, but jurors couldn’t decide whether Simental was guilty of a misdemeanor.
Posted by kshaw at June 1, 2005 05:56 AM