Former Frank Zappa Bassist: Roy Ralph Estrada Imprisoned for Child Molestation

[Whisper]

Roy Ralph Estrada​

Former Frank Zappa bassist imprisoned, again, for child molestation

FORT WORTH — A founding member of the band Little Feat who also played bass for Frank Zappa will serve 25 years for molesting a child younger than 14 over an extended period, the Tarrant County district attorney's office said.

Roy Ralph Estrada, who performed with Zappa's The Mothers of Invention, abused the female family member in Tarrant County after he was released from a California prison for another child abuse case.

Estrada, 68, is being temporarily housed at the J. Middleton prison unit near Abilene. He pleaded guilty in January to a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child.

"The victim's family was unaware that he was a convicted sex offender,” Melody McDonald, spokeswoman for the Tarrant district attorney's office, said in an email.

"Estrada was sentenced to 25 years in a plea bargain agreement and is not eligible for parole. He will be 93 years old before he is released from prison."

On Dec. 9, 1994, Estrada was convicted in Orange County, Calif., of the felony offense of committing a lewd act with a child, according to records from the Tarrant County district attorney’s office.

After he served his six-year sentence, he reconnected with his family in Texas, McDonald said. He was indicted on the new charge in March 2008.

Zappa, a musical innovator described by The New York Times as rock’s most committed iconoclast, died at his Los Angeles home at age 52 in 1993.
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http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/0...k-zappa-bassist-imprisoned.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Valasca]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Not Estrada!
Oh, hell. Zappa is spinning in his grave.
Oh... NOOOOO!

 

[Valasca]

[MENTION=1346]Whisper[/MENTION], please tell me you aren't the one who put the late, great Frank Zappa's name under Estrada's picture.

 

[Whisper]

lol sorry was planning on using franks name with his pic and got mixed up

 

[Valasca]

Bah. I'm trying to post my favorite pic, Phi Krappa Zappa, but I just can't do it on my phone.