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by David Webb
David Webb is a veteran journalist who has written for the mainstream and alternative media for three decades. He is now a freelancer who lives in the Cedar Creek Lake area. He is the editor of cedarcreeklake.com. E-mail story ideas to davidwaynewebb@yahoo.com.
CORSICANA — Joey Dauben, former blog publisher of the Ellis County Observer who maintained a home office on Cedar Creek Lake and covered some local municipal issues, was convicted of child sexual assault Friday, Nov. 12.
A Navarro County jury in Judge James Lagomarsino’s 13th District Court took only two hours to convict Dauben of one count of indecency with a child and three counts of child sexual assault. The molestation occurred at a church camping trip Sept. 30, 2007 at Navarro Mills Reservoir Park at a Feast of Tabernacles celebration sponsored by the now-defunct Olive Tree Ministries Church of Waxahachie.
The 14-year-old male teenager who was assaulted did not make an outcry about the assault until the summer of 2008. His mother, who is divorced from the father of the youth who is now 20, did not start contacting law enforcement authorities until about January of 2009 because she thought his father had filed a complaint with the FBI.
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