A long-haul truck driver was charged with abusing his two stepdaughters during road trips and fathering a child with one of them, authorities said Friday.
Tony Slone, a 43-year-old registered sex offender from Southern California, was arrested Thursday in Chester, N.Y., after his
stepdaughters, ages 13 and 16, said he had sexually abused them over the last four years, said the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
The elder daughter also told deputies that
Slone was the father of her 13-month-old child.
Deputies on Friday
arrested Slone's wife Anita, the girls' mother, in Victorville. They said
she knew about the crimes and let her daughters go with her husband on truck trips in California, Nevada and Arizona where the abuse occurred.
"She admitted to police
she knew her husband was the father of her daughter's child," said Kathleen DiDonato, deputy district attorney in San Bernardino County.
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Deputies said they learned of the abuse when a high school student called them Tuesday and said she had seen sexual text messages on her friend's cell phone from the friend's stepfather.
Tony Slone is a registered sex offender in California. He was convicted in 1995 of lewd acts on a child and served an eight-year prison sentence, authorities said.
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