Racine Church Youth Leader Arrested
WAUKESHA, Wis. -Police arrested a church youth leader after they say he tried to get an underage teenage boy to have sex.
Diego Rodriguez, 20, is charged with child porn and having sex with a 16-year-old boy on multiple occasions, police said.
Court documents showed Rodriguez reached out to the boy over the internet
.
Rodriguez is a youth leader at Apostolic Faith Church in Racine.
Police set up an undercover sting operation that involved a police officer pretending to be a 15-year-old boy.
According to the criminal complaint against Rodriguez, the undercover officer chatted with Rodriguez on an app called Grindr, where they agreed to meet in Waukesha. The undercover officer told Rodriguez multiple times he could be arrested for meeting an underage teenager.
“Yeah, people could,” Rodriguez replied.
Officers arrested Rodriguez when he showed up.
No one from Rodriguez’s church commented.
