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Hays County Criminal District Attorney Kelly Higgins announced last week that 59-year-old Randall Mosbey, of Kyle, was sentenced to life in prison on Oct. 18, 2024.
On Oct. 18, 2024, a jury found Randall Mosbey guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a child and invasive visual recording. Randall Mosbey pleaded guilty to the count of invasive visual recording at the beginning of trial, and after hearing all of the evidence, the jury also convicted him of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
The evidence in trial showed that Randall Mosbey sexually abused a child over the course of several years starting when the child was around 7 years old. The defendant also placed hidden cameras in the victim’s bathroom and bedroom and during that investigation by law enforcement, the victim came forward to the detective and disclosed all of the years of sexual abuse. The jury also heard evidence that back in 1992, the defendant was court-martialed in the U.S. Marine Corps and found guilty of sexual offenses against a child.
After the convictions for continuous sexual abuse of a child and invasive recording, Judge Dan Mills sentenced Mosbey to Life in prison without the possibility of parole under Texas’ Auto-Life statute, after taking note of Mosbey’s previous conviction for a sexual offense against a child.
Judge Mills also sentenced the defendant to the maximum punishment on Count II Invasive Visual Recording of two years in state jail.
This case was investigated by the Kyle Police Department and was prosecuted by Assistant Criminal District Attorneys Miranda Ebersole and Elizabeth Schmidt.
“We want to thank the victim in this case for having the extraordinary courage and strength to come forward and face their abuser in court,” Ebersole said. “We also want to thank Sgt. Congdon from Kyle Police Department for his extensive work on this case.”
Higgins said that cases of this nature are an extremely high priority for the office, adding that justice will come to those who harm children, no matter how much time has passed.
