HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A pastor at a northeast Houston church has been charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
Paul Cain, 65, is charged with sexual abuse of a child and sexual assault of a child.
[Ads /]
Cain is a pastor of New Canaan Missionary Church at 4609 Hirsch Rd. in the Kashmere Gardens community.
Investigators say the investigation started after a female victim made an outcry of abuse.
[Ads /]
Cain used his phone to send multiple sexually explicit messages to the victim and sexually assaulted her multiple times in 2018, according to investigators.
A deacon at the church told ABC13 that Cain hasn't served there in months.
Follow Erica Simon on Facebook and Twitter.