Former LPD Officer's Trial on Child Molesting Charges Starts Today
By: Administrator
Updated: October 8, 2012
A former
Lubbock police officer accused of molesting two of his adopted
daughters will go on trial for those accusations Monday, October 8th, and will also go to trial for the alleged rape of a woman in
2007.
That victim came forward last year saying 32-year old Jason Hignight raped her twice when she was 18-years old.
Court documents reveal the alleged assaults happened in 2007 at a duplex near 35th and Quaker. At the time Hignight lived in the same building as the woman. The victim did make a report with the Lubbock Rape Crisis Center in may of 2007 but charges were never filed against her attacker. The woman says she decided to come forward and pursue charges after she saw Hignight on the news accused of molesting his daughters.
Hignight was indicted by a Grand Jury back in February of 2011, on charges of sexual assault with a child.
He resigned from the Lubbock Police Department in January, 2011, just before he was arrested.
That victim came forward last year saying 32-year old Jason Hignight raped her twice when she was 18-years old.
Court documents reveal the alleged assaults happened in 2007 at a duplex near 35th and Quaker. At the time Hignight lived in the same building as the woman. The victim did make a report with the Lubbock Rape Crisis Center in may of 2007 but charges were never filed against her attacker. The woman says she decided to come forward and pursue charges after she saw Hignight on the news accused of molesting his daughters.
Hignight was indicted by a Grand Jury back in February of 2011, on charges of sexual assault with a child.
He resigned from the Lubbock Police Department in January, 2011, just before he was arrested.
