Man Charged with Seven Counts of Child Sex Assault
Posted/updated on: June 6, 2013 at 4:40 pm
MARSHALL — 36-year-old Marvin Silmon of Harrison County was arrested last week, and has been charged with seven counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Sheriff Tom McCool says Silmon confessed to all seven counts in the case, which involved a six-year-old. McCool says the man is a registered sex offender. According to the DPS Sex Offender Registry, Silmon was sentenced in 2005 to five years in prison for the sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl. He was released from TDCJ with no restrictions from the parole board and was current on his sex offender registration.
