A local man was sen- tenced to life in prison without chance for parole on Monday after his con- viction last month of con- tinuous sexual abuse of a young child or children. 121st District Judge Trey Didway sentenced Jose Tijerina-Gardner fol- lowing three...
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A local man was sen- tenced to life in prison without chance for parole on Monday after his con- viction last month of con- tinuous sexual abuse of a young child or children. 121st District Judge Trey Didway sentenced Jose Tijerina-Gardner fol- lowing three hours of testi- mony in the Terry County Courthouse. Terry County Attorney JoShae Furgeson-Worley represented the state in the case and told the judge Tijerina Gardner deserved the maximum sentence for what he did to his grandsons, who accused him of repeatedly raping them over more than a year. Accusations by the defendant’s grandsons, who were 6 and 8 years old at the time of the offenses included multiple instances of sexual contact, rape, and other abuses, including pun- ishments such as eating ants and sleeping in a storage building. The boys and their older sister were in the courtroom Monday and briefly took the stand to deny knowing one of the defendant’s character witnesses, who claimed to have spent consider- able time in
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