On Friday, District Attorney Ann Montgomery announced that 66-year-old Richard Lynn Phillips was sentenced to life without parole after an ongoing child abuse case.
Phillips was sentenced to life without parole after voting the judge to decide his punishment, officials say.On Friday, law officials announced Richard Lynn Phillips was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree felony of Continuous Sexual Abuse of Young Children.
The 66-year-old's trial began on Mar. 28 in which the jury heard evidence of the ongoing abuse that took place between March and November of 2012. According to the evidence presented, Phillips was abusing two young girls in his neighborhood aged 7 and 8 at the time. Years later, the girls disclosed the assaults and testified about the details and trauma it caused their families.Download NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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