A Tulsa County judge on Monday sentenced a man to life in prison without parole for sexually abusing a 14-year-old family member while he was on probation for sexually abusing a minor child.
District Judge Sharon Holmes’ sentence for Jimmy Lee Fields, 70, followed the recommendation of a jury that convicted him Dec. 4 of one count of child sex abuse after a previous conviction of the same crime.
Fields’ second child sex abuse charge was filed when a 14-year-old family member reported in November 2014 that Fields had inappropriately touched her on multiple occasions over the course of the summer, according to an affidavit.
The girl told investigators that Fields had touched her breast under her shirt after she told him that her chest was hurting, the affidavit states.
She also said Fields had on separate occasions touched her breast over her clothing, her inner thigh while she sat on his lap and her groin area over her clothing, according to the affidavit.
During a police interview, Fields admitted to touching the girl’s breast but said he had been feeling for lumps.
He also admitted to grabbing her breast on another occasion and touching her thigh but denied placing his hand on her groin, the affidavit states.
Fields acknowledged that performing a breast exam on the girl was wrong and that grabbing her breast was inappropriate, according to the affidavit.
District Judge William LaFortune in August sentenced Fields in his first child sex abuse case for acts he committed while on probation, court records show.
Fields had been on probation since 2004 after serving nearly four years of a 15-year split sentence for sexually abusing a minor child, Oklahoma Department of Corrections records show.
LaFortune ordered Fields to serve 14 years in prison after the state presented evidence that while he was on probation he committed child sex abuse and failed to register as a sex offender, court records show.
Holmes granted the state’s request to run Fields’ no-parole life sentence consecutively with the 14-year term, Assistant District Attorney Andrea Brown told the Tulsa World.
After the sentencing Monday, the state dismissed an additional count of failure to register as a sex offender, Brown said.
