Former Fort Bliss soldier pleads guilty to sexual abuse of 6-year-old child on Army post
A former Fort Bliss soldier faces a minimum of 30 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to the continuous sexual abuse of a 6-year-old child at a home on the Army post, authorities said.
Trevor Dylan Lehew, 28, of Plano, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child Monday in federal court in El Paso, the U. S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas and the FBI said.
Lehew pleaded guilty to repeatedly sexually abusing the child between November 2014 and December 2015 while he was stationed at Fort Bliss, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release. The link between Lehew and the child was not disclosed.
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A federal grand jury indicted Lehew last December and he was arrested in January. At the time of his arrest, Lehew was in a Texas state prison serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child in Dallas County in 2020, according to information from the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Lehew faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years in prison on the federal conviction, officials said. A sentencing date is pending.
The case was investigated by the FBI with assistance from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division.
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