KTRK: Grandfather accused of sexual assault in Cypress

A man has been accused of sexually abusing his granddaughter in the Cypress
area, Houston ABC affiliate KTRK reports.
 

Frank Robert Burdett, 76, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a
child. According to court documents, Burdett is the paternal grandfather of
the victim. He is accused of sexually assaulting the victim on numerous
occasions from August 1999 to October 1999 while babysitting her when she
was 11 and 12 years old while living in the Cypress area.

The victim, now 23 years old, claims that Burdett was babysitting her and
her brothers while her parents were not home and that he sexually assaulted
her two different times in the kitchen while her brothers were upstairs. The
victim claims Burdett sexually assaulted her in her parents' bedroom on
another occasion.