A California youth pastor has been
accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl after police found him in the
backseat of a car with her on a highway turn out.
Yanhao
“Eric” Ren, 24, of the Los Angeles County community known as Rowland Heights,
was arrested Monday on suspicion of a number of sex crimes with a child,
local station KTLA reports.
Ren has been a pastor
for Evangelical Formosan Church of Rowland Heights for two years and has
allegedly carried out a sexual relationship with the child since May, the
station reports.
On
Sunday just before midnight, the California Highway Patrol found him parked
with the girl off of Highway 330, a low-traffic road that runs through the
Angeles National Forrest, the Highland Community News reports.
According
to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, which lead the
investigation, the Highway Patrol conducted a welfare check on the car. Both
Ren and the girl told investigators they had a sexual relationship. The victim
met Ren while attending youth programs at the church.
Ren is charged with five counts
including: sex crimes with a child under 14; sodomy with a child under 14; oral
copulation with a child under 14; penetration with a foreign object with a
child; and kidnapping.
He is being held on $500,000 bail.
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