Crime & Safety
Peninsula Pastor Sentenced For Molestation
Victor Tax-Gomez, 50, also known as Ever Oliveros-Cano, was a pastor for Senor Justicia Nuestra Church.
SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA -- A former pastor was sentenced to eight years in prison for molesting three victims and will be deported at the end of his prison sentence, San Mateo County prosecutors said today. Victor Tax-Gomez, 50, also known as Ever Oliveros-Cano, was a pastor for Senor Justicia Nuestra Church in Menlo Park, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.
When the victims were 13, 15 and 17, Tax-Gomez committed the crimes over the course of three years while claiming to be praying with or cleansing the victims at the church, prosecutors said. Two of the victims
were sisters and a third was a friend.
Two years later, one of the victims told a therapist that the crime had happened and the therapist reported it to Menlo Park police.
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Tax-Gomez was arrested on June 1, 2017.
Two victims presented a victim's impact statement during the sentencing hearing on Friday.
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Judge Donald Ayoub denied probation and sentenced Tax-Gomez to eight years in prison, lifetime registration as a sex offender and ordered him to have no contact with the victims.
District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe confirmed that Tax-Gomez will be deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the end of the jail sentence.
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