An alleged child sex offender will have to wait until at least March to find out his fate after a sentencing date was continued in a Morgan County Circuit courtroom. 39-year-old Thomas Edward Garcia, Senior, was charged in mid-June with a class-A felony count of child molestation and two felony counts each of statutory rape and statutory sodomy involving victims under the ages of 14 and 12. The accusations date back to incidents which, allegedly, happened on Christmas Eve 2012, New Year’s Day 2017 and June 5th also in 2017. Garcia, senior, has been held in the Morgan County Jail since his arrest on a $350-thousand bond. His plea hearing is has been reset for March 11th.
