TEXAS
The Dallas Morning News
Liz Farmer, Breaking News producer
A Central Texas woman was sentenced Wednesday for sexual assault of her children, who reported the abuse after escaping from her house, officials said.
The trial started Monday in the 424th District Court in Burnet, about 60 miles northwest of Austin, regarding allegations of sexual abuse by both Misty Rae Hopkins and her late husband, John Hopkins, who acted together, as well as apart, according to a press release from the district attorney’s office.
John Hopkins was a pastor at a church in the area during the time of the offenses.
Assistant District Attorney Stacy Burke told the jury Hopkins is the worst pedophile she’s seen in her career, adding that Hopkins is a truly evil person who tortured her children.
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