A man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for an Arlington sexual assault - the first prosecution under the Texas "Molly Jane's Law" enacted after the 2017 rape and murder of a Fort Worth woman named Molly Jane Matheson.
In 2019, police reports say a woman was raped at Arlington's Crystal Canyon Park. She was approached by a man with a gun who recorded the sexual assault on his mobile phone.
The following year, Jesse Ray was arrested in a Tyler, Texas drug investigation. Police then found the phone with the video and that information was entered into an FBI data base which found a connection to the Arlington rape.
Involving the FBI database was a requirement of "Molly Jane's Law."
Ray was already doing a life sentence for the Tyler drug case. Now that he's been sentenced in Tarrant County he will be shipped to Oklahoma City to be tried for another sexual assault.
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