Former Richmond Outreach Center Pastor Geronimo “Pastor G” Aguilar is to be sentenced by a Texas judge Monday, Oct. 12, according to Samantha Jordan, a spokesperson in the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office.

The ex-minister, who once was respected by Richmond area politicians, law enforcement, business leaders and residents, faces life in prison when he goes before Judge Louis Sturns.

While awaiting sentencing, Mr. Aguilar, 45, has been confined to the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth since June 24. That’s when he was convicted by a jury on seven counts of sexual assault of a minor and indecency with a child.

His attorney, David Carlson of Glen Allen, told the Free Press that Mr. Aguilar is doing “remarkably well. We’re talking about what his options are after the sentence is handed down.”

He said the defense team would lodge an appeal after the sentencing.

Mr. Carlson said the team would try to have the sentencing hearing changed to a later date because “we were not consulted” when the sentencing would take place. “No one on (Mr. Aguilar’s) defense team can be in the courtroom with him on that date.”

Mr. Aguilar was found guilty of sexually assaulting two sisters, ages 11 and 13, in the mid-1990s while he was a youth pastor at their Texas church.

He asked to be sentenced by Judge Sturns instead of the jury.

After the 12-person jury convicted Mr. Aguilar, Judge Sturns asked for a pre-sentencing report to be provided to him no later than this month.

Mr. Aguilar was 26 years old and married to his first wife at the time of the crimes, and assaulted the girls for more than a year, according to prosecutors. He lived with the family and slept between the girls in a bed when the assaults began, according to trial testimony.

He was arrested by authorities at his Richmond home in May 2012 and resigned from the Richmond Outreach Center a month later. He was indicted by a Texas grand jury in September 2012.

Prosecutor Eric Nichols said after Mr. Aguilar’s conviction that he will seek a sentence that guarantees he will never get out of prison.

Meanwhile, the church that Mr. Aguilar once led known as the ROC was renamed Celebration Church and Outreach Ministry and is still searching for a full-time senior pastor.

Dr. Robert Rhoden, a longtime pastor and executive in Assemblies of God ministries, is serving as the church’s transitional pastor, and is leading services with his son, Rob.