COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The minister accused of sexually assaulting a teen girl had sex with the girl at least four times and fathered the child of the girl, who had just turned 15 when she birthed the child in September, new police documents reveal.
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said earlier this week they were looking for more possible victims of 22-year-old Romello Leach’s.
Leach is a licensed pastor associated with several churches that meet often at the Satellite Hotel in Colorado Springs, the sheriff’s office said.
An affidavit for Leach’s arrest says deputies first started investigating Leach in May, when a staffer at the Colorado Springs Pregnancy Center alerted the sheriff’s office to a teenage girl who had gotten pregnant by an adult man.
The girl told deputies originally the father of the child was a “friend from their church,” who was later identified as Leach.
“He says it is not like he will go around and sleep with everybody’s 13 or 14 year old daughter.
The affidavit says the girl had the child on Sept. 15, which was about two months after her 15th birthday. »