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"Judge indicted on more sex abuse charges; Already set for trial in an earlier case, he's accused of attacking another female employee"

"Judge indicted on more sex abuse charges; Already set for trial in an earlier case, he's accused of attacking another female employee": Lise Olsen and Mary Flood of The Houston Chronicle have a news update that begins, "U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday on new charges of sexually abusing another court employee and lying about it to a judicial disciplinary panel. Kent already is facing a trial in January on criminal charges of sexually abusing a different female employee, making him the first federal judge to be charged with federal sex crimes. He has repeatedly denied the charges. The same grand jury that indicted the jurist in August added on three additional charges on Tuesday: aggravated sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact and obstruction of justice."

The Associated Press reports that "Judge indicted on additional sex charges in Texas."

And the U.S. Department of Justice has issued a news release headlined "U.S. District Court Judge Charged in Superseding Indictment with Aggravated Sexual Abuse and Abusive Sexual Contact."

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).