(Stillwater, Okla.) – A convicted child molester serving a five-year prison term for failure to notify Lincoln County authorities of his address change as a sex offender admitted in court Friday that he failed to register as a sex offender when he was living in the 1100 block of E. Broadway in Cushing four years ago.
Kevin James Masquat, 48, must serve five years of probation in his Cushing case when he completes his prison sentence in 2017 in his Lincoln County sex offender registration violation case, according to a plea bargain approved by Payne County District Judge Phillip Corley Friday.
Masquat had been convicted of child molesting in Lincoln County in 2004, for which he was given a four-year prison term, state Department of Corrections records show.
Masquat’s criminal record includes convictions for possession of methamphetamine in Payne County in 2010, possession of a stolen vehicle in Lincoln County in 1989, drunk driving in Payne County in 1987 and 1988, bail jumping in Payne County in 1988, and second-degree burglary in Payne County in 1987, DOC records show.
In his Payne County sex offender registration violation case, a Cushing man went to the police station on May 26, 2011, to find out how to get Masquat out of his house where he had allowed him to live since December of 2010, Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit.
The homeowner did not live at the house in the 1100 block of E. Broadway, located a block from a pre-kindergarten school, the affidavit said.
When the Cushing police detective showed the homeowner a picture of Masquat from the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registry, the homeowner said that he did not know that Masquat was a sex offender, the affidavit said.
At the time that Masquat was living in the 1100 block of E. Broadway in Cushing, he was registered as residing in Lincoln County at a rural Cushing address, the affidavit said.
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