(Via GoSanAngelo.com)

RISING STAR - A registered sex offender from Rising Star is in intensive care after being severely beaten by an angry father.

According to officer Brock Johnson with the Rising Star Police Department, Dustin Abrams beat Larry Laine Smith Friday night in the 100 block of S. Bruce Street after he learned of allegations that Smith sexually assaulted his child.

Rising Star officials say there are two witnesses to the alleged assault.

Abrams was arrested and charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, and has bonded out of jail. His bail was set at $15,000.

According to information from a sex-offender database, Smith was convicted of indecency with a child by exposure in May of 1999 in a case that involved a 10-year-old girl.

Police said Shane Ledbetter of the Texas Rangers is investigating the case.

Rising Star is a town of 800 in Eastland County, west of Cross Plains.