Overview
- A Muskogee judge sentenced Dustin Walker on Monday, June 29, to a life prison term for felony sexual abuse of a child under 12 plus decades in consecutive sentences for six counts of child neglect.
- Prosecutors say DNA testing showed about 99 percent certainty that Walker fathered the child born to his 11-year-old stepdaughter, who gave birth at home without medical care and was taken to a hospital afterward.
- The court directed that the neglect terms be served first, applied Oklahoma’s 85 percent service rule before parole eligibility, and imposed three years of supervision if paroled along with sex-offender registration and a no-contact order.
- Reporting differed on how the case reached sentencing, with some outlets saying Walker entered a blind guilty plea in March and local coverage saying a jury found him guilty, but court records confirm the June 29 sentencing order.
- The victim’s mother and maternal grandmother have been charged for alleged failures to protect the child, prosecutors say the girl had been removed from school or homeschooled which limited outside detection, and several siblings were removed by child protection investigators.