KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A metro church leader has been charged with child sex crimes, but KCTV5 has learned that this is not the man's first offense.

Police took the man into custody at the Stony Point Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kan., after the family involved came forward and told authorities about inappropriate communications they discovered he'd been having with their child. Michael Joy, 40, has been charged with aggravated indecent solicitation of a child.

The pastor of the church told KCTV5's Sandra Olivas that he received a call from the victim's family on Thursday. The family and pastor gave the information to police the next day and Joy was arrested at the church where he had been volunteering weekly as a youth leader for about 20 kids.

According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, Joy had been convicted and served time in 1991 for molesting children. The pastor said Joy told the church that he had been convicted on charges that had nothing to do with sexual crimes against children.

"There has been deception from the get go -- from the very beginning," said pastor Tom Hamilton. "Betrayal -- that doesn't begin to explain it."

Hamilton said they did a background check on Joy when he started working with the children and his name did not appear on the sexual offender list. Church officials have since learned that Joy's earlier offense would not appear on the list because it happened in 1991 and the list did not begin until 1994.