Sex Offender Must Crochet on Probation
An ex-convict who pleaded no contest to sexually abusing his daughter was sentenced in Harlingen to 320 hours of community service crocheting.
The charges against Robert Wayne Thompson surfaced during a dispute over custody of the child, when Thompson’s ex-wife accused him of sexually abusing the 8-year-old and filed civil and criminal complaints against him.
After the girl told a judge in the civil case that her mother had told her to say Thompson abused her, state District Judge Rose Guerra Reyna, in the criminal case, agreed to a plea bargain that required Thompson to register as a sex offender, be under probation -- and spend 320 hours crocheting afghans.
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