Judge finds injury-to-child allegation true, sentences defendant to eight years after probation-revocation hearing

A judge in the 252nd District Court found an allegation that a 2-year-old child suffered injuries consistent with abuse true and revoked part of Dalvius Williams’s probation, the court said during a hearing on a second amended motion to revoke unadjudicated probation.

The finding came after testimony from daycare staff, investigators with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), and a Beaumont police detective, who reviewed photographs of the child’s back and described the marks as “severe, indicative of an object that struck the child.” The judge also accepted Williams’s pleas of true to two probation violations and entered a not-true plea to one prior allegation.

The ruling matters because the court converted a contested probation hearing into a formal finding against Williams on the newly alleged count and imposed an eight-year Institutional Division sentence for possession of a controlled substance—one of the counts at issue—after determining there was sufficient evidence to find count 4 true.

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