Gauthe admitted to sexually abusing 37 children[3] and accepted a
plea bargain in which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.[4] He was released in 1995 after serving 10 years of his sentence,[4] then moved to
Texas, where he was later charged with sexually abusing a 3-year-old boy.[5] He was sentenced to probation in 1997 after pleading guilty to abusing the child. He was later jailed in
Galveston County between 2008 and 2010 for violating the Texas
sex offender registry requirements.[6]
Gauthe's crimes inspired the 1990
HBO TV film Judgment.[7]