Sunday, March 8, 2026

Idiot of the Week: Arkansas Man gets 200 years in prison for sex crimes involving children

This week's idiot is a follower of you-know-who as this photo from his social page shows so it's sadly not surprising, but it is sickening. It appears he and his wife were arrested in August, 2024 for sex crimes against underage girls. 

Man gets 200 years in prison for sex crimes involving children

February 2, 2026 by Ron Wood, Arkansas Democrat Gazette

BENTONVILLE — A judge sen­tenced a Rogers man Monday, Feb 2, 2026 to 200 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in Benton County Circuit Court to sex crimes involving children.

Thomas Harper, 35, was charged with two counts of rape, sexual assault, sexual indecency with a child and aggravated assault and 30 counts of distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child.

Circuit Judge Robin Green sentenced Harper to 40 years in prison for each of the rapes, 20 years for sexual assault and six years for aggrav­ated assault. Those sen­tences will run concurrently.

Harper was sentenced to eight years on each of 20 counts and four years each for another 10 counts of child porn with all 30 counts run­ning con­sec­ut­ively and concurrently to the other prison terms.

In another case, Harper was sentenced to six years in prison on a guilty plea to sexual indecency with a child. That time will be served concurrently to his other sen­tence.

Harper was arres­ted last year on charges that he sexu­ally abused a 9-year-old girl at the Bentonville Community Center, according to a probable cause affidavit.

The girl’s parents reported she told them Harper touched her inappropriately in a changing room at the center, the affidavit states.

The affidavit said Harper volun­teered to take the girl swimming.

The girl was interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Benton County, where she detailed being touched inappropriately by Harper, according to the affidavit. She said Harper threatened to harm her parents if she told anyone, the affidavit states.

Harper denied the girl’s account, according to the affidavit.

Police found suspected child sexual abuse mater­ial on Harper’s cellphone, according to the affi­davit.

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