Sex offender Back in Jail After Violating Probation Conditions

A San Angelo man completing seven years of probation found himself in jailer’s custody again on Monday after being unsuccessfully discharged from a mandatory sex offender therapy on April 7.

On Oct. 18, 2007, 50-year-old Tomas Flores Torres pled guilty to a charge of aggravated sexual assault of child in Judge Ben Woodward’s 119th District Court. The sexual offense was committed against a female victim then under the age of 14 on Oct. 15, 1997.

Torres was sentenced to seven years probation for the charge, however repeated violations have resulted in the terms of his supervision being amended three times over the past four years.

The first two violations came in January and February 2010, when Torres failed to pay fees and was found to have attended the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo Carnival, a violation of restrictions placed on him as a sex offender. For these two violations, Torres was sentenced to a week in Tom Green County Jail, which commenced on April 2, 2010.

When Torres again failed to make payments in 2012, made contact with a person under 17, and was found to be within 1,000 feet of Spring Creek Marina Park, his conditions were once more amended, resulting in confinement in the county jail for eight alternating weekends.

Recently, Torres was unsuccessfully discharged from sex offender therapy, and was once again ordered to jail, this time for 14 days.

Torres was booked into the jail on Aug. 4, where he will remain for the next two weeks.