Pulst guilty of molesting young girls

A Chester man is in jail in Liberty County awaiting sentencing after a Hill County jury found him guilty of molesting two young girls in the 1990s and, on another occasion, exposing himself and masturbating in front of one of the girls and her sibling.

The jury deliberated just more than an hour at the end of the three-day trial before convicting Donald Wayne Pulst, born in 1952, of two felony counts of sexual assault and one of sexual intercourse without consent, also a felony, and a misdemeanor count of indecent exposure.

The jury was sent to deliberate at 12:19 p. m., and announced at 1:30...