FLENNIKEN DENIES LAWSUIT CHARGES

  

Retired District Court Judge Terry Flenniken is strongly denying charges made against him in  a recently filed lawsuit.

          The Texas Center for Defense of Life sued the one-time judge this week, charging he ordered a 15-year old Burleson County girl to be returned to ahome with her legal guardian, even though she claimed the guardian’s convicted sex offender boyfriend had made aggressive advances towards her.

          Judge Flenniken released a statement Friday saying the charges are ‘unequivocally false’  Flenniken went on to say that his record speaks for itself and reflects the ‘highest degree of concern for the protection of children.’  Flenniken said he would ‘vigorously defend’ himself against what he called a ‘frivolous lawsuit’ in the proper forum.

          The lawsuit charges Flenniken with knowingly placing a minor with her former step grandmother, despite her living with a registered sex offender in Caldwell.

          Months after the Flenniken decision, the sex offender, Edward Clinton Lee,, shot and killed the guardian and sexually assaulted the teen.  Lee pled guilty to capital murder and is now serving a life sentence.

          Lee had been arrested in 1993 for indecency with a child. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for that crime and was ordered to register as a sex offender.

          The Center for Defense of Life also says the teen claimes her guardian and Lee forced her to have an abortion.  They are asking the state attorney general to investigate possible criminal charges against Flenniken.

          Flenniken retired from the bench last year, after serving 12 years on the court.

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