Former KSEV talk show host entered a plea agreement with Fort Bend County prosecutors today on a charge of indecency with a child:
RICHMOND -- Former radio talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty today to a charge of indecency with a child in a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Matthews, 59, who resigned from his position at KSEV-AM 700 last year, was to go to trial June 28 but decided to accept the agreement after rejecting it last week, said Fort Bend County District Attorney John Healey.
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According to court documents, Matthews is to be placed on deferred adjudication for seven years.
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He was indicted Nov. 11 on a charge alleging that he had exposed himself to an 11-year-old girl at his home on Oct. 9. He was arrested two days later and released on $10,000 bail.The conservative talk show host resigned from his position at KSEV-AM 700, where he had a program on weekday mornings, and also stopped writing a column for the weekly Fort Bend Star.
Matthews was beyond conservative. His show featured the same self-indulgent windbaggery and reactionary bombast which makes 99% of AM talk radio such a joke. I didn't comment on the early stages of the case, because I figured the guy would eventually get his day in court and everything would get sorted out. He did, and it has. We can now comfortably hold Matthews up as another Hicks-ian example of those who rant and rave about "family values" and the danger posed to our country by "liberals" as often being the ones with the most to hide.
Deferred adjudication sure beats the 2 to 10 in prison he was looking at (where I'm told child predators are a big hit). As for the chances of Jon Matthews - Sex Offender getting another radio job, I wouldn't hold my breath.