Kansas killer let out of prison for 1984 strangulation murder is back behind bars for molesting 8-year-old girl
A convicted killer allowed parole for a 1984 strangulation murder went on to become a babysitter and molested an 8-year-old girl in 2018.
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A convicted killer allowed parole for a 1984 strangulation murder went on to become a babysitter and molested an 8-year-old girl from 2016 to 2018. Shockingly, he blamed the victim, claiming she “took advantage of him.”
Clifford Eugene Cox, now 60, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 21 years for sexually abusing the child, following a March guilty plea to aggravated kidnapping and aggravated indecent solicitation of a child. If he lives long enough to see the outside of a prison again, Cox will been under lifetime post-release supervision, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.
After he was arrested in the case in August 2018 and questioned, Cox tried to blame the victim, calling her “flirtatious” and “sexually aggressive” while claiming she “took advantage of him,” The Wichita Eagle reported.
Kansas Department of Corrections records show that a warrant was issued in the child sexual abuse case against Cox on Aug. 20, 2018. Sedgwick County Jail records say Cox was booked that day and that he initially faced charges of rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, and conspiracy to commit aggravated indecent solicitation of a child.
