NEW JERSEY
WABC
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (WABC) — A former New Jersey church pastor was sentenced on sexual assault charges nearly two years after he fled the country following his conviction.
Forty-nine-year-old Gregorio Martinez appeared in Hudson County Superior Court Friday. He was sentenced on charges of aggravated criminal sexual contact, endangering the welfare of a child and child abuse.
Martinez, once a Pentecostal preacher in Jersey City, was found guilty of molesting a 13-year-old boy he got to know through a church in North Bergen in February 2015. Additionally, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s office filed more sexual assault charges after three 19-year-old men also accused him of sexual assault.
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