AUSTIN, Texas — A Travis County family is stunned after an accused child predator avoids being prosecuted on multiple charges of sex crimes against a child.

Richard Leigh Bell walked out of a Travis County District Court on Monday after reaching a plea bargain with Travis County prosecutors.

Bell was originally indicted on nine felony charges that include: continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14; six counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child; and two counts of indecency with a child. But prosecutors agreed to dismiss those charges against Bell for his plea of guilty to one count of injury to a child, a third-degree felony.

KVUE spoke to the victim’s father outside the courtroom, following the sentencing, says prosecutors didn’t give him a say on the plea bargain they offered t

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