May 21, 2019
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
A Weatherford man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to prison for sexual solicitation of a minor along with other felonies.
33-year-old Anthony Dorsett Thomas pled guilty last week and was sentenced to ten years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections with all except the first six years suspended.
He pled guilty to one count of soliciting sexual conduct by use of technology and to showing obscene material to a minor.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the victim, a Weatherford teenager, accepted a Facebook friend request in June of 2018 and by late July had begun to receive what investigators call lewd messages from the new Facebook friend.
When the messages were brought to the attention the youth’s father, Weatherford police were called. Police say a number of messages are explicit and vulgar.
Thomas allegedly left his phone number in two of the Facebook messages, telling the youth to call him. The affidavit says that the defendant’s face is shown in several photographs on the Facebook pages and police believe that Thomas was aware that the victim was a minor.
According to the defendant’s criminal history, Thomas pled guilty to a “peeping tom” charge, an assault and battery, and first degree burglary in 2015.
He was additionally given five years in prison in a separate case of assault and battery on a police officer, also a felony. His sentence on this charge is to run concurrent with the first one.
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