Once a registered sex offender, Melvin Quinney, 74, is in the clear, his record expunged after his son recanted an accusation made in 1990.
Melvin George Quinney Jr., 74, is hugged by his grandson, Zao Parker, 13, at the Bexar County Courthouse after his criminal record was expunged Monday by state District Judge Christine Del Prado. Quinney was 43 in 1991 when he was arrested and charged with indecency with a child, accused by Parker, then 10, who later recanted. Quinney served eight years in prison.It took a little more than three decades, but Melvin George Quinney Jr.
It was 1990 when Quinney, then 43, was accused by his 10-year-old son John, arrested and charged. At his trial, Quinney watched his son testify against him. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison but released for good behavior in 1999 and completed parole in 2011. Once he became older and no longer needed the medication he had been prescribed, Parker said, he started to remember things — specifically that he was never abused by his father.
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