Florida Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges

Tampa’s Fox affiliate reports:

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is looking for possible additional victims after one of its former deputies who was also a youth group pastor in Riverview was arrested on child molestation charges.

Deputies say they went to a Hillsborough County home on February 24, 2023, to investigate a report of an adult man possibly molesting a 12-year-old child.

On March 7, 2023, detectives using a search warrant found multiple electronic storage devices with items of ‘evidential value.’ More than a year later, on September 11, 2024, charges were filed with the State Attorney’s Office, and Pablo Rios Hernandez, 41, was arrested.

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