Fort Worth bus station security guard sentenced for sexual assault of 12-year-old girl
A Fort Worth bus station security guard was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office said in a news release posted to social media.
A Tarrant County jury found Quincy Neighbors, 36, guilty last week after hearing testimony that Neighbors, while he was on the job in April 2022, took advantage of a 12-year-old runaway girl. The girl was looking for help at a bus station in Fort Worth, the district attorney’s office said in the release.
Neighbors drove the girl to a park, where he raped her, according to prosecutors.
“We tell our kids to trust people wearing a uniform and badge,” Assistant District Attorney Deanna Franzen told the jury in closing arguments. “That trust and innocence was ripped away when Neighbors savagely raped this child ... he is a threat to every child in Tarrant County, because this is not the first time.”
According to the district attorney;s office, Neighbors was convicted of raping a 16-year-old in Louisiana in 2013.
Assistant District Attorney Courtney Mowdy told the jury, “He didn’t think this rape was going to come back on him, since the girl was a runaway. She didn’t matter to him, but she matters to us ... give her justice.”
The Fort Worth Police Department and Dallas Police Department assisted in the case.
This story was originally published August 11, 2023 at 9:02 PM.
