‘Serial Molester' Garners Four Life Sentences
Posted on Saturday, March 06, 2010
By DAYNA WORCHEL
Tyler Morning Telegraph Staff Writer
Judge Kerry Russell of the Smith County 7th District Court, on Friday, gave an Arp man four life sentences and one 20-year confinement to prison after he submitted an open plea of guilty to four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child.
Bobby Lee Blanton, 64, was immediately remanded to the custody of deputies after the sentencing.
Testimony in the hearing included that of two women, now ages 47 and 48, who were 9-year-olds at the time Blanton molested them. During some tearful and impassioned testimony from the mother of one of Blanton's victims, a member of the audience in the courtroom began audibly sobbing and had to be escorted outside by a deputy.
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