{"id":242656,"date":"2026-04-09T22:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242656\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:14:32","slug":"pastor-arrested-in-2010-sexual-assault-case-in-irving-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242656\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor arrested in 2010 sexual assault case in Irving \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 51-year-old pastor, Troyce Hernandez, was arrested this week, accused of raping a young woman nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest affidavit states the woman was 18 at the time of the alleged sexual abuse. Now, 34, she filed a complaint with the Irving Criminal Justice Center on March 24 this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the affidavit, the woman says Hernandez raped her in January 2010. The court document says she made a &#8220;delayed outcry that she was sexually assaulted multiple times by Hernandez.&#8221; The woman told police she and her family were living with Hernandez at the time as he volunteered to help her &#8220;move forward with her faith and desire to do more for God within the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the woman accusing Hernandez, he entered her room, undressed her, and then forced himself on her.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pastor-mug.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Records list Hernandez as a pastor at True Grace Church in Arlington. The church has not responded to NBC 5&#8217;s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>There is no attorney listed for Hernandez as of Thursday evening. He was booked into the Dallas County Jail on Thursday morning, and his bond is set at $100,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 51-year-old pastor, Troyce Hernandez, was arrested this week, accused of raping a young woman nearly a decade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150,116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-242656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}