A former Amarillo and Canyon ISD teacher who has a previous history of child sex offense convictions pleaded guilty Monday to indecency with a child by sexual contact.
Patrick Kenneth Farmer, 59, entered the guilty pleas in Randall County’s 251st District Court. Farmer appeared with his attorney and waived his right to a jury trial and to confront witnesses.
The court found Farmer mentally competent and determined that his pleas were entered voluntarily. He was taken into custody and booked into the Randall County Jail following the hearing.
Farmer, who also previously worked at Paramount Baptist Church and served as a Sunday school teacher, has faced multiple indecency with a child charges dating back more than two decades.
In 2006, Farmer pleaded guilty in Randall County to four counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact. Court records from those cases involved three victims who were younger than 10. The offenses occurred between 2001 and 2004.
Farmer received six years of deferred adjudication, along with community service and fines. He completed deferred adjudication in 2012 and has been required to register as a sex offender. His Texas teaching certificate was revoked in 2007.
Farmer previously worked for both Canyon and Amarillo school districts. Canyon ISD has said he taught at Lakeview Elementary during the 2000-01 school year. Amarillo ISD records indicate Farmer resigned from a substitute teaching position in August 1993.
The latest cases emerged after additional alleged victims contacted law enforcement in 2024 and reported being sexually abused by Farmer when they were children. The reported incidents date to the 1990s and early 2000s.
One criminal complaint alleged Farmer touched the genitals of a girl younger than 17 in December 2000. Farmer was arrested in connection with newly reported allegations in 2024 and subsequently faced additional indictments.
The new prosecution comes years after Farmer completed his punishment in the earlier cases. Under Texas law, certain sexual offenses involving children can be prosecuted without a statute of limitations, allowing cases to move forward even when the alleged conduct occurred decades earlier.
Following Monday’s guilty pleas, Farmer was remanded into custody rather than remaining free on bond.
The punishment phase is expected to begin Tuesday before District Judge Ana Estevez. A second-degree felony in Texas carries a possible prison sentence of two to 20 years and a fine of up to $10,000.
