A youth pastor in Wildomar was arrested Friday on suspicion of sexually assaulting children over a nearly 20-year span.

Malo Victor Monteiro, 45, of Colton, was booked into Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of intent to commit rape, mayhem or sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts with force on a child under 14, lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, distributing harmful matter and sexual penetration by force, according to the Riverside County jail log.

Bail was set at $225,000.

The Sheriff’s Department received a report in June that a youth pastor had committed lewd acts. Detectives determined that several victims had been sexually assaulted when they were juveniles between 1999 and 2017, a news release said.

The name of the church where Monteiro worked was not disclosed. The Sheriff’s Department spelled the suspect’s name as Montiero; the jail log spelled it as Monteiro.