{"id":463830,"date":"2026-10-12T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463830\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:14:11","slug":"former-fort-worth-volunteer-pastor-arrested-on-child-indecency-family-violence-charges-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463830\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fort Worth volunteer pastor arrested on child indecency, family violence charges, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A volunteer at a Fort Worth church was arrested last week and charged with indecency with a child and family violence, according to court records. <\/p>\n<p>Brandon Dillard, 48, was arrested on Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Grapevine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrest report said he faces one count of indecency with a child sexual contact, one count of assault causes bodily injury to a family member and one count of assault on a family or household member impedes breathing or circulation. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/brandon-dillard.png#.png\" alt=\"brandon-dillard.png \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Dillard faces multiple charges, including indecency with a child, according to court records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Tarrant County Corrections<\/p>\n<p>Dillard worked as an associate pastor at IMRSN Church in Fort Worth, according to his Instagram bio. However, when CBS News Texas reached out to IMRSN for a comment, church officials sent the following statement:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Dillard resigned from his volunteer role several weeks ago and is no longer part of our team. Our prayers are with the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Court records show that Dillard is currently in the Tarrant County jail on a $230,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p>Details surrounding his arrest have yet to be released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A volunteer at a Fort Worth church was arrested last week and charged with indecency with a child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2458,10303,116,118,117,1352,122],"class_list":["post-463830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-assault","tag-child-sex-abuse","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-grapevine","tag-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463830","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=463830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}