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Donald Michael Roach was found guilty of sex abuse of a child was sentenced to 25 years without parole in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

The husband of country singer Wynonna Judd was arrested March 22, 2007, in Texas and charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery on a child under the age of 13.

In a post on her Web site, Judd said she filed for divorce from her estranged husband, D.R. Roach, citing irreconcilable differences, and named the charges against him.

A spokesperson from the Taylor County Jail in Texas said that a warrant was issued in Tennessee for Daniel Roach and that he’s being held on $750,000 bond.

The message on Judd’s Web site said that Roach had been seeking treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at the Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas, since Feb. 21, 2007.

The National Enquirer reports that Roach was arrested at the rehab center, the same facility where Judd battled a food addiction.

Roach was Judd’s longtime bodyguard before he married the singer in 2003. Judd was previously married to Arch Kelley, they divorced in 1999 and have two children, Elijah, 12, and Grace, 10.