Pastor Faces Life in Prison after Being Arrested by Federal Marshals

Geronimo Aguilar, a Richmond Va pastor who stands accused of sexually abusing two young girls in the late 1990s, was released from jail Thursday after posting bail of $200,000.

Judge Louis Sturns from Tarrant County,Texas put a gag order on lawyers and court officials dealing with Aguilar’s case.

After a bail reduction hearing was scheduled and then cancelled, Aguilar was released.

Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, spokeswoman, Melody McDonald, said that she was not allowed to discuss any details of the conditions of Aguilar’s bail and could not say whether he would be allowed back to Virginia.

Apparently, McDonald said in an email that “Mr. Aguilar’s bond conditions can be obtained from the court or the Tarrant County District Clerk’s Office.”

However, later that afternoon Aguilar’s paperwork was still being prepared, according to the Clerk’s office. A little later, the clerk’s office said that it was not allowed to release information on Aguilar’s bail conditions because it had been ordered not to by the judge.

David Carlson, Aguilar’s lawyer in Virginia, also declined to answer any questions about the bail conditions. His secretary said she was not allowed to divulge any information by order of the judge.

Donnis Baggett, executive vice president of the Texas Press Association said that refusal to release information about public court records and referring to a gag order is a strange practice for a court officer.

“This seems extremely strange from a public records perspective. A gag order usually applies to the principals, particularly the attorneys, discussing the case,” Baggett said.

After being arrested by a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force last week, Aguilar was charged with four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14 in two separate cases.

Aguilar is facing sentences of life imprisonment if he is found guilty of the crimes which are first-degree felonies.

Aguilar was also charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child, and faces a prison sentence up to 20 years for those second-degree felonies.

Epistle of Jeremy 1:28 As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse;

Isa 32:6         For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity,

Rom 1:26         For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27         And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:29         Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;