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Edinburg pastor facing new child grooming charges

Edinburg pastor facing new child grooming charges
38 minutes 8 seconds ago Tuesday, August 25 2026 Aug 25, 2026 August 25, 2026 4:45 PM August 25, 2026 in News - Local
Source: KRGV
Jorge Ivan Gonzalez Martinez. Photo credit: City of Edinburg

An Edinburg pastor is facing new charges after two more juveniles came forward in an indecency with a child investigation, according to a city spokesperson.

Jorge Ivan Gonzalez Martinez was arraigned on two counts of child grooming on Tuesday, nearly a month after he was arrested and accused of inappropriately touching a child in church. 

Martinez was initially booked into the Hidalgo County jail on July 28 on four charges of indecency with a child, according to previous reports. The McAllen man was released on bond on Aug. 6. He’s now facing a $100,000 bond on the two new child grooming charges.

An arrest affidavit obtained by Channel 5 News following Martinez’s initial arrest identified him as a pastor at Iglesia Poder Y Gloria Church at 4801 S. Business Highway 281 in Edinburg. According to the affidavit, a female juvenile made an outcry to a parent on July 19 that she had been touched inappropriately by Martinez on multiple occasions between March 2025 and April 2025.

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All instances of the alleged abuse occurred in the church’s camera room, according to the affidavit.

As part of the conditions of his original bond, Martinez was released into an alternative incarceration program and was ordered to not have contact with children, not go to church, and stay 1,000 feet from child safety zones.

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