Child Sexual Assailant Violates Probation; Judge Sentences him to 9 Years in Prison

 

SAN ANGELO, TX -- On Wednesday morning, Manuel Rangel,36, charged with Indecency with a Child by Contact sat before District Judge Barbara Walther to answer for violating the terms of his probation. 

Rangel was indicted in July of 2014 for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child under 14 between Sept. 1, 2007, to Feb. 3, 2012. 

Rangel, "did then and there, with the intent to arouse or gratify [his] sexual desire, intentionally [and] knowingly engaging in sexual contact with the victim," his indictment reads.  

He was arrested in November of 2014 for the First Degree Felony offense and issued a $100,000 bond.

Rangel pled guilty to the lesser offense of Indecency with a Child by Contact in a plea hearing on July 8, 2015. He was placed on ten years probation as part of the State's plea deal.

Rangel was brought to court from the jail on Wednesday after violating the terms of his probation and was prepared to take a plea of true to the court revoking his probation.

Judge Walther accepted Rangel’s plea, and issued him 9 years confinement to institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Rangel was escorted back to the jail by a Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office detention officer to await transportation to prison. 

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