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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
BY DEANNA BOYD
dboyd@star-telegram.com
FORT WORTH — A Virginia pastor recently accused of sexually abusing two young sisters in the 1990s was asked to leave his former Fort Worth church after a member caught him kissing one of the young girls, according to court documents.
A Virginia attorney for Geronimo Scott Aguilar has previously said Aguilar was in Fort Worth during the mid-1990s to help start a small mission but relocated to Richmond, Va., for other opportunities.
But arrest warrant affidavits obtained by the Star-Telegram on Tuesday indicate that Aguilar had been asked to leave the Fort Worth church, New Beginnings International Church, after a member saw him kissing one of the alleged victims and alerted church pastors.
New Beginnings senior pastor Don Couch said Tuesday, however, that he never heard any allegations of sexual misconduct during the roughly year that Aguilar was employed at the church as an outreach and youth minister.
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