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Hearing set for former Victory Christian Center employee

The former janitor at Victory Christian Center who is charged with sending lewd Facebook messages to a 14-year-old girl is due in court.

A pre-trial hearing for 23-year-old Israel Castillo is set for this morning at the courthouse in advance of his trail that is to begin in September.

Castillo was a janitor at the 17,000-member church when he allegedly sent the messages to the girl.

Another former church janitor, Chris Denman, was sentenced last year to 55 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl in a church stairwell.

The girl's mother has filed a civil lawsuit against the worldwide ministry.

Several church employees came under fire last fall for waiting two weeks to report the stairwell rape to the authorities.

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