Lindale Woman Sentenced For Allowing Child Abuse

Judge Austin Reeve Jackson sentenced Samantha Wilson, 30, of Lindale, to prison Thursday for failing to report the repeated sexual abuse of at least one child. The court charged Wilson with abandoning or endangering a child with criminal negligence, and she received 20 years of federal confinement. Wilson told investigators that she did not tell police about the abuse because she was afraid they would take the children away from her, and she was scared of the man.