Ex-Pastor Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teen, Told Her to Delete Messages

In Red Bank, New Jersey, a pastor who held spiritual authority over a teenage girl allegedly used that trust as cover for years of sexual abuse, beginning when she was just fourteen years old. Enrique Molina, fifty, now faces thirteen criminal charges spanning the full arc of that betrayal — from assault to the deliberate erasure of evidence. His case joins a long and painful human reckoning with the misuse of sacred trust, and reminds us that institutions meant to shelter the vulnerable can, when corrupted, become the very source of harm.