RICHMOND (VA)
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, June 6, 2013
BY LOUIS LLOVIO Richmond Times-Dispatch
Geronimo Aguilar, the embattled senior pastor at the Richmond Outreach Center facing child sex abuse charges in Texas, stepped down along with three other pastors Wednesday evening from the church he founded in 2001.
The resignation, announced by the South Richmond megachurch’s board of directors after a meeting, comes a day after arrest warrants were released alleging Aguilar had sexually abused an 11-year-old girl and her older sister for more than a year while living in their parents’ home in Texas in the 1990s.
“The Richmond Outreach Center remains focused on serving those in need and we will never stray from this mission,” read a letter from the board posted on the church’s website.
It did not address the charges Aguilar is facing, but the board has previously said that it stands by the pastor.
According to the letter, the board met Wednesday evening and accepted Aguilar’s resignation “upon mutually agreeable terms.”
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