Man receives life sentence for continuous child sexual abuse
Posted/updated on: July 1, 2025 at 3:22 am
HENDERSON COUNTY – A 42-year-old man was found guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a young child on Thursday and sentenced to life in prison by a Henderson County jury, according to our news partner KETK.
Manuel Lynn Tijerina will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty in a child sexual abuse case involving a 9-year-old.
The Eustace Police Department said they received a report from Child Protective Services on July 15, 2021 regarding the victim’s outcry of sexual abuse from a family member. Officials learned that Tijerina was touching the victim as they laid in the same bed. The victim told a forensic interviewer with Maggie’s House Child Advocacy Center that Tijerina touched them multiple times. One of the victim’s siblings said that Tijerina touched their upper thigh numerous times and made sexual comments toward them.
According to officials, both siblings saw Tijerina physically abuse their mother and went on to testify against him in court.
The forensic interviewer also testified against Tijerina by using an interview she had with the victim. The jury heard evidence from this case and a statement from the victims’ mother regarding the impact this sexual abuse had on them.
