Man who worked at church tried to solicit sex act from girl, Tarrant County authorities say

A Tarrant County man used his job running a church’s sound system to try to solicit a sex act from a girl, authorities allege.

Kenneth Tyler Hostin, 33, of Haslet was arrested Thursday on a felony count of criminal solicitation of a minor and was released from the Tarrant County jail on $25,000 bond the following day. It was unclear whether he had an attorney.

According to an arrest-warrant affidavit, the girl reported the abuse in July.

She said Hostin, who worked for a company that was contracted to handle the sound system at Compass Church, made inappropriate comments to her, urged her to take naked photographs of herself and, after asking her to play truth or dare with him, dared her to perform a sex act.

A detective with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department spoke to two other young women who encountered Hostin through his work at the church.

Both of them said Hostin made sexual comments and dared them to perform sex acts. In one instance, the affidavit says, he started putting money on his desk and repeatedly asked one of them whether it was enough for her to have sex with him as he continued to add money to the pile.

The detective wrote in the affidavit that the accusations made against Hostin in July were consistent with his “history of asking young females to commit sex acts under the guise of ‘playing truth or dare.’” Hostin does not face charges related to the other women.

Compass Church told authorities that Hostin had been banned from all of its campuses and that it had notified his employer, the affidavit says.

Anyone with information about the case may contact the Sheriff’s Department at 817-884-1305.