Posted on 11/07/2007 4:38:35 PM PST by Libloather
Poteet Mayor Reverses Decision To Resign After Child Indecency Plea
Last Update: 10:22 am
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The mayor of Poteet says he no longer plans to resign over his guilty plea to child indecency charges.
Lino Donato pleaded guilty last week to two counts of indecency by exposure and no contest to one count of indecency by contact for incidents between 1996 and 2000.
Donato's guilty plea cut short his trial on accusations he exposed himself to two girls and improperly touched one of them.
He planned a meeting today to resign as mayor of the town about 30 miles south of San Antonio. But Donato has now canceled it.
He says he's not guilty, didn't do those things and needs to clear his name.
He's still eligible for office because he was sentenced to deferred adjudication probation.
Donato, who must register as a sex offender, is in his third term. It ends in 2009.
He says he's not guilty, didn't do those things and needs to clear his name.
Did it happen in an airport bathroom?
To be fair, the events apparently happened over a decade ago and he’s going through a divorce—some chatter in previous stories that his wife is out to get him.
Don’t kill the messenger ;)
ok, I'll bite (poor chioce of words)...He must be a Democrat.
I’d like to know where he got the $70,000 it took to get him out of the clink.
If it was, “Borrowed,” from tax funds, hed a democrat.
Congressman Billybob
I agree. Like I said: don’t kill the messenger.
And how many of those who plead "not guilty" really are "not guilty?" (I think of Wenatchee WA, having met one of these folks.)
Yeah, that is what I was thinking as well.LOL
Congressman Billybob
Joke on Brian and the Judge this morning:
Which lawyers are happy?
The ones not practicing law.
When he leaves office he is going to open a day care center for little children.
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