Three new criminal charges were filed in March and a civil lawsuit earlier this month against Gabriel Hemenez, former member of the Gainesville based Ignite Life Center and volunteer at its summer camp.
Hemenez now faces three counts of lewd and lascivious molestation by an offender 18 years old or older, according to court records. Hemenez is currently serving a five-year sentence in Lancaster Work Camp in Trenton, followed by eight years of supervised probation and lifelong registration as a sexual offender.
WUFT obtained a sworn complaint affidavit from the Gainesville Police Department showing the new allegations. The case remains open, and confessions that police said the defendant made are redacted; however, the affidavit explains that the charges came when police interviewed the victim after disclosing to his mother that the defendant molested him on three separate occasions at night during the summer program at Ignite Life Church in Gainesville in July 2021. All victims in the Hemenez criminal and civil cases are young boys, according to court records…