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WEATHERFORD (1080 KRLD) – A convicted murderer who was paroled from prison early has been arrested again in Parker County.
According to officials, 52-year old John Robert Morton was arrested Saturday by Parker County Sherriff’s deputies for an alleged sexual assault.
Report say that Morton sexually assaulted a known female acquaintance at his girlfriend’s residence after giving her a ride.
Morton was charged with second-degree felony sexual assault and booked into the Parker County Jail. His bond is set at $50,000.
In 1984 Morton was sentenced to 99-years in prison for sadistically torturing and killing his then-girlfriend’s 3-year-old son, Charles Christopher Burns, in Parker County.
Morton received an early release from prison late last year, despite objections voiced to the parole board in 1999, by the then-prosecutor of the murder case, former Parker County DA Amy Adams.
In her letter to the parole board, Adams urged the board to cautiously evaluate Morton, and that “based on the brutality and obvious suffering of the child victim, society demands protection from this man. The possibility of future victims must be weighed against his right of release on parole.”
Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said he expects a parole warrant to be issued for Morton.
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