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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Neena Satija, The Texas Newsroom, Taylor Goldenstein, and Molly-Jo Tilton, KWBU

Inside the child sex abuse case that resulted in Ken Paxton’s office offering a plea deal of just one day in jail

WACO — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is under fire for a plea deal his prosecutors offered last month to a Waco man charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy.

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.

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