Sex Offender Charged

A former Amarillo Activity Youth Center Executive Director has pleaded guilty to three cases of child sexual abuse dating back to 2000.

 Matthew Walter Hite pleaded guilty to multiple charges relating to sexual abuse and assault cases that occurred in 2000, 2003 and 2010.

Hite was sentenced for the following charges:

He’s been sentenced on charges ranging from indecency with a child, sexual assault to solicitation to commit indecency with a child.

The sentence adds up to 70 years in prison and fines totaling 6-thousand dollars.

Hite will also be required to register as a sexual offender.

He was booked into the Randall County jail in 2020 on two charges involving child sexual contact. The charges dated back to arrest warrants from the year 2000.

In 2021, Hite was arrested again for child sexual assault charges.