Kyle man gets nine life sentences
A 57-year-old Kyle man given nine life sentences last week for the sexual abuse of his underage stepdaughter will face other charges in Hays County, officials say.
On July 27, a Guadalupe County jury took less than an hour to convict Clarence Wesley Curl Jr. of nine counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and 11 counts of sexual performance of a child. About an hour later, the jury handed Curl the maximum sentences for the first-degree felony aggravated assaults, the Hays County District Attorney’s Office says.
The life sentences are slated to run concurrently with his other convictions, officials say.
Curl, who had an address in the Post Oak subdivision, has 13 additional counts of aggravated assault, stemming from similar accusations from when his stepdaughter was between five to 12 years old, court records show.
The alleged abuse started in San Marcos and continued when the family moved to Guadalupe County, said the district attorney’s office, which also had Assistant District Attorney Cathy Compton assist in last week’s case.
Compton said that the Hays County case is pending and does not anticipate it to go to trial due to the life sentences in Guadalupe County.
In an unrelated case, Candelario Cerda Jr., 27, of Lockhart, is set for trial on 30 counts of sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony.
Cerda allegedly abused a female victim under the age of 17 during multiple incidents at an undisclosed Hays County location in 2009, records show.
An arraignment for Cerda is scheduled for Thursday at the 22nd District Court in San Marcos. His court-appointed attorney Amanda McDaniel did not return calls for comment.
