The pastor of a Davie church has been accused of molesting two teenage girls.
Felipe Arroyo, 37, the pastor at the Church of Christ Guethsemane, has been charged with five counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor and four counts of battery of a minor.
Hollywood police said a girl who attended the church accused Arroyo of inappropriately touching her several times in 2007 and 2008, when the girl was about 13 years old. The girl and her family were living with Arroyo at the time of the alleged crimes.
According to Hollywood police, the girl's parents said Arroyo had called them and begged for their forgiveness for what he had done to the girl.
After the allegations were made, Arroyo's niece, now 21, also accused him of molesting her when she was 16 or 17 years old. The niece and her husband also told Hollywood police that Arroyo had apologized to her.