Faces of 2015: Geronimo Aguilar, former ROC pastor

Richmond Times-Dispatch/ December 26, 2015

By Louis Llovio

WHY YOU KNOW HIM: Aguilar, founder and former senior pastor of the Richmond Outreach Center, was convicted by a Texas jury in June on seven counts for a sexual relationship he had with a girl that started when she was 13. He was in his 20s at the time.

WHAT’S NEW: Aguilar once led a congregation that numbered in the thousands. He was a charismatic leader known for the South Richmond megachurch’s community work and for Saturday night sermons that were as electric as a rock concert.

Today, he is inmate 02027428.

Aguilar is serving a 40-year sentence and is housed at the Tulia Transfer Facility on Highway 86 West in Tulia, Texas.

The small town is about halfway between Amarillo and Lubbock.

Not a lot of information is available about what life is like inside the prison or how long Aguilar will be housed there before he is moved to a state penitentiary.

The prison houses about 550 inmates, about 45 of whom are incarcerated for sexually assaulting children, according to the Texas Tribune.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said the 45-year-old former pastor’s projected release date is June 15, 2055, when he is 85 years old. He will not be eligible for parole until June 15, 2035, when he is 65.

Aguilar was convicted on two counts of aggravated assault of child under 14, three counts of sexual assault of a child under 17, and two counts of indecent contact with a child. Charges that he had sex with the girl’s younger sister, beginning when she was 11, are pending.
He was sentenced in October and has been behind bars since he was convicted.

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