The investigation into Deysi Esperanza Arriaga-Perez began in late 2024 following a report to Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS). The victim, a six-year-old girl, lived in an apartment on Hilltop Drive in South Irving with the suspect, who is her aunt.
During a forensic interview conducted at the Irving Family Advocacy Center on September 25, 2024, the child provided harrowing details of three separate incidents of sexual molestation. The victim described manual penetration and assaults that occurred in the bathroom and while sharing a bed with the suspect.
On June 4, 2025, Arriaga-Perez reached a plea agreement with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. She pleaded guilty to Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, a first-degree felony. Under the terms of the agreement, she was sentenced to 10 years of deferred adjudication probation and required to register as a sex offender for the remainder of her life.
The Probation Violation
Deferred adjudication is a specific legal arrangement in Texas where a formal conviction is withheld as long as the defendant strictly follows the rules of their probation. If those rules are broken, a judge can “adjudicate” the guilt and sentence the defendant to the full range of punishment allowed by law, which, for a first-degree felony, is 5 to 99 years or life in prison…