Yesterday afternoon the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office arrested Terry L. Clouse on a 2nd degree felony warrant for Sexual Assault of a Child. Clouse is accused of having an affair with a 16 year old girl that was living in his home. The girl became pregnant and Clouse is believed to be the father. Search warrants for DNA evidence to support that fact were executed today.
Clouse (50) was convicted of Murder in Limestone County and also had a conviction for the Sexual Assault of an 18 year old female. He was last released on parole from prison in 2009 and had been living in the Douglass area of our county.
We actually received the report accusing Clouse of Sexual Assaulting this girl in 2011 when our victim became pregnant. She and her mother denied the affair and the girl claimed her child was fathered by someone else at that time. We had to wait for the birth of the victim’s child in order to collect DNA samples and only recently did we gain sufficient supporting evidence to obtain that warrant from a judge.
It is frustrating to know that a man who should have been in prison for life was set free to perpetrate these additional crimes. Hopefully, this arrest will be enough to convenience the Parole Board that he should not be released again.
