AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has voted to keep a convicted child killer on sex-offender restrictions, even though he wasn’t convicted of a sex crime.
The Austin American-Statesman reports the board decided Raul Meza is a continuing threat to society “by reason of lack of sexual control.” The 3-0 vote limits his movements and essentially keeps him confined to a Travis County jail.
Meza was convicted in Austin of killing 8-year-old Kendra Page in 1982 and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He got another four years in prison later for having a weapon in prison.
Good behavior qualified him for release in 1993, but a curfew violation returned him to prison in 1994.
In May, a federal appeals court ruled Texas improperly placed sex-offender restrictions on Meza and thousands of other parolees.
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