The mother of two adopted girls objected Tuesday, June 13, in Butler County Common Pleas Court to a 60-day jail sentence given to a man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the girls three years ago.

In a plea agreement, Farrell Bruce Parker, 63, of Slippery Rock, was sentenced to serve 60 days in the county prison followed by nine months of house arrest, which is to be followed by 12 months of probation.

Parker pleaded guilty to two felony charges of corruption of minors. The charges were consolidated into one count.

Butler city police filed those and other charges against Parker in February 2021 when the girls were 13 years old and 11 years old. The incident took place Sept. 1, 2020. Both victims testified against Parker at a preliminary hearing in April 2021.

The mother of two adopted girls objected Tuesday, June 13, in Butler County Common Pleas Court to a 60-day jail sentence given to a man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the girls three years ago.

In a plea agreement, Farrell Bruce Parker, 63, of Slippery Rock, was sentenced to serve 60 days in the county prison followed by nine months of house arrest, which is to be followed by 12 months of probation.

Parker pleaded guilty to two felony charges of corruption of minors. The charges were consolidated into one count.

Butler city police filed those and other charges against Parker in February 2021 when the girls were 13 years old and 11 years old. The incident took place Sept. 1, 2020. Both victims testified against Parker at a preliminary hearing in April 2021.

In addition, Judge Kelley Streib found Parker to be a Tier 1 sexual offender under Megan’s Law and ordered him to report to state police for 15 years.

The victims’ mother told the court the plea agreement was “not proportionate to the facts.”

She said she adopted both girls. One of them was an honor student until the abuse took place, she said.

That girl then began getting into trouble at school, on the school bus and at home, she said. The girl threatened to commit suicide seven times and spent time in UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, she said.

Both girls are receiving therapy for trauma, she said.

She said two months in jail is not justified, and sitting at home under house arrest is not punishment for Parker.