“Child custody and protection from abuse is something entirely different”
Good point about child abuse! But at some point child abuse has to be criminal, and this is serious mental abuse of very young girls.
It appears that the District Attorney’s office made a technical error and prosecuted the father under the wrong law (”public indecency?”). The father has not been acquitted of anything, and still can be prosecuted.
On an earlier thread, it was pointed out that for an ex husband to have custody is rare in Texas. The woman either did something blatantly wrong or took great pains to forsake the children. The whole charge might be a lie.