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NEW BOSTON, Texas — A Bowie County jury has sentenced a 56-year-old New Boston man to 800 years in prison for repeatedly abusing multiple children, including his own daughters.

Horace Colbert was convicted on 40 counts of sexual assault of a child following a trial that detailed decades of abuse. The judge handed down the maximum 20-year sentence for each count, ordering them to be served consecutively.

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