Ector County District Attorney Dusty Gallivan detailed in a Facebook post that a 34-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage girl over the span of two years.
Jose Angel Silva was found guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, and sentenced to life in prison.
According to the Facebook post, Gallivan stated that Kortney Williams and Elizabeth Howard “did an excellent job prosecuting this case to get a child predator off the streets of our community.”
Judge Denn Whalen of the 70th District Court was presiding.
Court records show that Silva has already issued a notice of appeal to the Honorable Court of Appeals situated in Eastland.
The reported sexual abuse happened between July 23 and July 25, an Odessa Police Department affidavit stated.
During a Harmony Home interview, the girl reportedly detailed that she was sexually assaulted by Silva while she was lying on the bed to go to sleep. The girl stated the first sexual assault happened when she was 11 years old. The girl also stated that she was sexually assaulted every other weekend.
A SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) exam was conducted on Aug. 4 at Medical Center Hospital, the affidavit stated. The exam supported the claim of sexual assault.
