Three jailed on separate crimes against children

By Glynis Crawford Smith

The Highlander

Three separate and unrelated cases involving the violation of children led to arrests and bookings into the Burnet County Jail already this month.

One of them, Christina Nichole Bruton, now of Clarksville, faces prison immediately through a State Request for Adjudication filed by District Attorney Sonny McAfee.

Two others, Ronald Rambo II of Briarcliff and Austin Slade Jones of Meadowlakes, were arrested on felony indictments handed down by the Burnet County Grand Jury to bring cases to trial.

Bruton, 31, had been placed on 10 years probation in 2009 for Sexual Assault of a Child. According to the motion on she was arrested, she failed to comply with the terms of her probation when she failed to report to the Burnet County Community Supervision Corrections Department in February, pay delinquent fees and fines, maintain employment or maintain employment. Beyond those basic violations, the motion states she accepted employment across the street from Clarksville High School and not only associated with the father of a six-year-old child, but lived in the home with them.

After a final hearing, Bruton could be sent to serve out at least a portion of her prison sentence. Cited in her Sunday, March 5, booking were four counts of Sexual Assault of a Child in 2008 and another of Credit or Debit Card Abuse of an Elderly Person in November last year.

Jones, 20, was arrested March 3, and released on $35,000 bond on each of two counts of Sexual Assault of a Child alleged to have taken place July 22, 2016.

Rambo, 50, was arrested Thursday, March 2, and released on $25,000 bond on each of two indictments on Indecency with a Child by Sexual Contact. The event on which he was charged occurred in November 2016.

Sexual Assault of a Child involves sexual activity with a person under 17. Indecency with a Child by Contact involves touching for sexual gratification.