WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Waco auto parts salesman was found not guilty Wednesday of improperly touching his ex-wife’s sister more than two decades ago.

Jurors in Waco’s 54th State District Court deliberated about an hour before acquitting Roman Daniel Rodriguez, 47, of two counts of indecency with a child by contact.

Trial testimony showed the alleged victim first reported the allegations in 2014, telling her sister and mother that Rodriguez touched her improperly while she was in bed with Rodriguez and his wife in 2002 when she was 10.

Rodriguez first learned the allegations during a temporary orders hearing in his divorce and custody battle in 2018. He was not arrested until January 2020.

In state rebuttal testimony, another woman testified that Rodriguez also touched her improperly

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