There should be all kinds of investigations of this, there won’t be because they’re MEN, there won’t be because Tetens is involved, Paxton involved, and who knows who else or what went on but, once again, they think we’re all stupid and can’t see what’s in our face. VOTE OUT every incumbent and anyone anywhere near close to this awful case.
UPDATE: Disgraced Waco attorney Adam Hoffman to register as sex offender in Nebraska
Why disgraced Waco Attorney Adam Hoffman was released early from McLennan County Jail
Published: Jun. 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM CDT
WACO, Texas (KWTX) – Adam Hoffman, the disgraced former Waco attorney who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his son’s friend for years, will have to register as a sex offender in Sarpy County, Nebraska, where he is now living with his wife.
Sgt. Adam Arko with the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to KWTX he served Hoffman with paperwork requiring him to register as a sex offender in Nebraska. It happened Friday morning at Hoffman‘s home in Papillion, Nebraska.
Arko said he received a call from a citizen in Waco concerned that Hoffman is not required to register you as a sex offender in Texas.
Arko explained, that under Nebraska law, if a sex offender in another state is convicted of a crime similar to one on the Nebraska law books, they are required to register in Nebraska.
Arko said Hoffman‘s conviction for indecent assault, although a misdemeanor, is similar to a law in Nebraska requiring sex offenders to register.
Hoffman will be required to register as a sex offender in Nebraska for 15 years, but Arko said he is eligible to request removal from the list after 10 years.
The former Waco attorney was released from the McLennan County Jail on May 25 after serving 29 days of his 60-day sentence. He received 2-for-1 credit for good behavior.
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Hoffman, 49, who initially faced up to life in prison without parole, pleaded guilty April 16 to reduced charges of indecent assault and displaying harmful materials to a minor, both Class A misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail, in a plea bargain offered by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
Hoffman’s trial on first-degree felony continuous sexual abuse of a young child charges ended in a mistrial in June 2025 after jurors deadlocked 7-5 in favor of finding him guilty. He was facing life without parole until Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Office reduced the charges in exchange for his guilty pleas.
A young friend of Hoffman’s son testified that Hoffman sexually assaulted him multiple times at Hoffman’s former China Spring home over a three-year period beginning when he was in the third grade.
The boy’s mother initially said she was fine with the plea bargain, telling Visiting Judge Roy Sparkman it was enough to hear Hoffman say he is guilty.
The boy’s mother told KWTX at that time she is disappointed that Hoffman was spared prison time, but said it was important for her son to hear Hoffman admit guilt after Hoffman denied the allegations and called her son a liar at the first trial.
“We just wanted to hear him say that he really did it, that it’s true and we just needed to be done so we could move on,” she said. “It’s been five years and it’s a little devastating that he is not going to prison. But he said ‘I’m guilty, I did it,’ and that’s what my son needed to move on.”
She said it was a good birthday present for her son, who recently turned 14.
While it was emotionally wrenching for her son to have to tell a courtroom full of strangers what Hoffman did to him, she said he would have braced himself to do it again at the retrial.
“My son had no reason to lie. It flipped our lives upside down,” she said. “It was devastating. But he was my hero. In my eyes he became a man that day. It set him free and it gave him a little bit of a smile back.”
However, a week later at the sentencing hearing, the mother told the judge the 30-day misdemeanor jail term was not near enough for the trauma Hoffman put her son through.
Sparkman balked at the plea deal, asking Assistant Attorney Generals Brenda Cantu and Dorian Cotlar to explain how justice would be served if he accepted the plea agreement.
They told the judge they were considering the boy’s wishes not to have to testify again and the additional trauma it would put him through at retrial.
While the state prosecutors left the McLennan County Courthouse without comment following the April 27 sentencing hearing, they issued a statement three weeks later after Cornyn used Hoffman’s case to attack Paxton and made it a major campaign issue. The statement said they considered the well-being of the boy, who they said made it clear he would not voluntarily testify at a second trial.
Criminal defendants have the absolute right to confront their accusers, and it would have been difficult – if not impossible – to retry Hoffman without the boy’s testimony.
Paxton’s office agreed to handle the case after McLennan County District Attorney Josh Tetens recused his office because Hoffman conferred with Tetens about the case before Tetens was elected DA.
Sparkman, obviously conflicted about whether to accept the plea agreement, doubled the 30-day offer to 60 days in jail and required Hoffman to surrender his law license for five years. Hoffman will not have to register as a sex offender on the misdemeanor charges.
The harmful materials charge stems from the boy’s testimony that Hoffman showed him pornographic images and videos on Hoffman’s tablet.
McLennan County Jail inmates typically are given credit for serving two days for one if they exhibit good behavior, and they made no exception in Hoffman’s case. Inmates who earn trusty status typically are given credit for serving three days for one, county officials said.
As outrage continued to build over Hoffman’s plea bargain with the AG’s office, State Rep. Pat Curry, R-Waco, State Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, and two friends advocating for the victim and his mother, held a press conference May 15 at the McLennan County Courthouse to express outrage at the deal.
Others protested outside the courthouse, holding signs decrying what they called the injustice of the deal.
Leach, chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence, said he has invited Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to appear before his committee to explain the disposition of Hoffman’s case by his office but so far Paxton has not responded to his request.
“This is a travesty that cannot continue to happen,” Curry said. “This is a travesty that we as lawmakers and we as protectors of Texans have to stand up and fight for and make sure that these types of corrupt situations don’t happen again. Unfortunately, we have to put more and more guardrails in to keep these things from happening again.”
Both lawmakers pledged to pursue legislative action in an effort to prevent cases like Hoffman’s from ending so badly.
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Let’s put the blame where it REALLY belongs. Yes, Ken Paxton deserves SOME blame because of the two dimbulb skirts from his office that were assigned to prosecute this case. And yes, McLennan Co. so called DA Josh “Grizley Adams” Tetens deserves massive amounts of scorn because of the incompetence that he & his office demonstrates on a daily basis since he was mistakenly elected. The BIGGEST amount of blame falls on the stooped shoulders of “America’s Has Been Sheriff” Parnell “Propeller Penis” McNamara, whose McLennan Co jail is responsible for the 2 for 1 & 3 for 1 “time off for good behavior” early release farce which allowed the “Mini Masturbator” Adam Hoffman to initially flee scott free to Nebraska. Thankfully, the Nebraska Sheriff dealt out a little punishment to Hoffman by requiring him to register as a sex defender. Next, somebody needs to figure out how to eliminate his ability to ever practice law again. Finally, it goes without saying, the ultimate form of jury nullification & punishment needs to be visited upon the child predator pervert Hoffman. We can always hope!!! So, shame on everybody who had a hand in this farce, but ESPECIALLY on the withered, impotent excuse for a lawman, Par McNamara. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!!!