Floresville man gets 30 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting child at daycare – FINCHANNEL

SAN ANTONIO – A Floresville man has been sentenced in federal court to 360 months in prison for sexually exploiting a 7-year-old girl.

According to court documents, Rodney Allan Felux, 45, sexually abused and exploited the child while the child attended a daycare in December 2022. The victim informed his mother of the incident, which led to an investigation. In a forensic interview, the victim said she was sexually abused while blindfolded and taken to a shed where Felux took numerous sexually explicit images of her.

Felux was arrested on January 11, 2023, and pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse in January 2024. In addition to the 30-year prison sentence and lifetime supervised release, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered Felux to pay $50,000 in restitution to the victim.

“As the court explained at sentencing, the penalties for this offense are severe for good reason,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas. “The defendant caused irreparable harm to this young girl as a result of his intended, planned, and executed predatory sexual conduct.”

“This verdict sends a clear message that we will not tolerate the sexual abuse and exploitation of children in our community,” said Special Agent in Charge Aaron Tapp of the FBI’s San Antonio Field Office. “The FBI, along with our law enforcement partners at the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office, will continue to vigorously pursue every lead to rescue child victims of sexual abuse and bring their perpetrators to justice.”

The FBI and the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Thompson prosecuted the case.