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Jurors Decide On Maximum Punishment For Convicted Molester
Jurors decided on the maximum punishment Thursday for a 57-year-old former computer consultant convicted on 12 counts stemming from the sexual abuse of a child over the course of a year.
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(October 18, 2007)—Jurors decided on the maximum punishment Thursday in Waco, after convicting former computer consultant William Ray Phillips, 57, on 12 counts ranging from indecency with a child to aggravated rape of a child.
They returned sentences totaling nearly 700 years and fines totaling more than $100,000 after deliberating for about an hour.
Earlier Thursday the jury found Phillips guilty on charges that stem from a series of incidents over the period of about a year from 1982 to 1983.
The state statute of limitations on such charges would not have run out until the victim turned 28.
Phillips served nearly four years in federal prison for possession of more than 800 pornographic photographs of children.
The abuse allegations surfaced, as federal authorities investigated the child porn case.
The jury began deliberating punishment about 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
Phillips could be sentenced to as much as life in prison.
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