Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — who claims to be a Christian, cheated on his wife, and is endorsed in his Senate run by President Donald Trump — offered a man charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy just one day in jail, reports I’ve Had It and The Texas Tribune:
The deal in the case, which Paxton’s office took over about three years ago after the locally elected district attorney recused himself, would have let the man plead guilty to two misdemeanors and serve a total of just one day in jail…
“Predators who commit these crimes tend to repeat them over and over again, until stopped,” U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who Paxton is seeking to oust in the primary, recently posted on X.
“Paxton could have stopped this one, but instead cut him loose to reoffend over and over again, putting more children at risk.” State Rep. Jeff Leach, a Plano Republican who has endorsed Cornyn’s reelection, sent a letter to Paxton’s office earlier this month calling the deal “incomprehensible” and demanding answers.
Paxton’s office did not respond to emailed questions for this story. A spokesperson pointed to a letter that two of his prosecutors who worked on the case sent to Leach last week, in which they explained that the case went to trial last year but ended in a hung jury, and the young victim did not want to testify a second time.
(Sources: The Texas Tribune, I’ve Had It)