Text messages, recorded call used to take down youth pastor

Valley Central
December 09, 2014

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Domingo Salinas

A series of saved text messages and a recorded phone call are both being used as evidence against a youth pastor accused of molesting a boy.

Texas Rangers arrested 38-year-old Domingo Salinas on an indecency with a child by contact charge on Monday.

Investigators reported that Salinas was a youth pastor at the Central Christian Fellowship Church in Weslaco.

Church leaders could not immediately be reached for comment but court records released to Action 4 News reveal several new details in the case.

The records show that Salinas was also a basketball coach for a local Boys & Girls Club here in the Rio Grande Valley.

Records show that the boy is now 17 years old but reported that Salinas sexually abused him repeatedly when he was 8 or 10 years old.

Texas Rangers reported that text messages between Salinas and the victim have been saved as evidence.

Records show that the Texas Rangers recorded a phone call between Salinas and the boy where they spoke about what happened between them.

Salinas appeared before Cameron County Magistrate Judge Alfredo Padilla where he was issued a $100,000 bond.

Records show that Salinas was released from the Cameron County Jail after posting bond on Tuesday afternoon.