FAYETTE, Ala. (WIAT) -- Fayette County District Attorney Andy Hamlin has filed a motion to place convicted child sex offender Timothy Benton back in prison.

This comes just one day after a CBS 42 investigation into how Benton was released from prison and placed into house arrest.

This is the first time the district attorney is taking action since Benton’s sentence was modified to house arrest last month. It also comes less than 24 hours after Benton was arrested for a SORNA violation.

In 2017, Benton was indicted by a grand jury on 48 charges ranging from human trafficking to sodomy.

Two years later, Benton took a plea deal to serve a 17-year sentence for two counts of sodomy against children ages 12 to 16. But after five years of prison time, his sentence was modified last month by ju

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