A Bay area minister is behind bars again.
Francisco Rios was arrested Monday at his home in Brandon. He is facing new charges of lewd or lascivious molestation of a girl under the age of 16.
Rios was arrested in April and charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious molestation. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office began investigating him in August after two girls, 12 and 17, and woman, 43, came forward with accusations, authorities said.
The 12-year-old girl said she was molested by Rios about twice a week over the past year, the sheriff's office said. The older girl said Rios touched her about 15 times starting in 2011 and that he told her he was doing so because he loved her as a pastor and that she shouldn't tell anyone because he could get in trouble, the sheriff's office said.
Rios has been the pastor at Casa De Amor (House of Love) church on Windhorst Road.
He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.