VIRGINIA
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2013
BY LOUIS LLOVIO Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Richmond Outreach Center will continue to pay its former senior pastor his $115,000 annual salary and will allow him to live in the church’s parsonage for the next six months.
The church’s board of directors agreed on the severance package for Geronimo Aguilar, who faces child sexual abuse charges in Texas, “after much discussion and taking his family into consideration.”
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Stephen C. Lewis, the South Richmond megachurch’s attorney, said the board felt that Aguilar’s years of service as the founder and head of the ROC merited the severance package.
“He was under an employment agreement, but I don’t think that was the reason for the severance. The reason was (because) people appreciate what he’s done and with what he’s got going on, people want to make sure his family was taken care of,” Lewis said.
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