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Byline: Mark Agee
Jan. 25--FORT WORTH -- After Jeremiah Sexton crashed his car into a minivan and a school bus following a high-speed chase in February, an officer ordered him to the ground at gunpoint. Then a nude 9-year-old girl climbed out of the driver's door, partially covered with her coat. The scene was in a video shown to jurors Tuesday at Sexton's trial.
"She said she was praying and asking for the angels to protect her," testified Grand Prairie police officer Oscar Garcia, whose dashboard-camera taped the car chase. "I told her I was there to protect her," he said. "I told her this man was never going to hurt her again." Sexton, 24, of Springtown, was found guilty Tuesday afternoon of three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of aggravated kidnapping, after a jury deliberated for half an hour. Judge Wayne Salvant is expected to hand down a sentence today for the kidnapping and rape of the Anderson Elementary student, who was grabbed by Sexton as she walked to the Arlington school…