{"id":1430096,"date":"2025-07-28T16:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1430096"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:25:34","slug":"smith-county-father-pleads-guilty-to-injuring-infant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1430096","title":{"rendered":"Father sentenced to 10 years for child abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY \u2014 \"\"Our news partners at KETK report that a Smith County father was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday after he was arrested for abusing a three-month-old baby in January. According to the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office, around 6 p.m. on Jan. 8, a deputy responded to a Tyler hospital, where they were informed by hospital personnel that a three-month-old baby had received significant injuries that looked like child abuse. While the infant was undergoing CT scans and X-rays, the attending nurse informed the deputy that the baby was lethargic, weak and had bruises on their face and neck. An investigator then spoke with the baby\u2019s mother, who told officials that her baby had just returned home after spending several days with his father, Zachray McGinn, at a home located near Whitehouse.<\/p>\n

According to officials, the mother explained that she had been in contact with McGinn and his mother, Brittany Mackey, on Facebook Messenger while her child was away. \u201cThe mother further explained that on Jan. 8, both McGinn and Mackey dropped off the infant at her residence,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u201cIt was at this time that the mother observed the lethargic manner of her child and the bruising to his face. Shortly thereafter, the mother took the infant to the emergency room in Tyler.\u201d<\/p>\n

The investigator spoke with the attending ER physician, who explained that the infant had a broken right clavicle, and the baby\u2019s right arm had to be splinted to his chest to heal.<\/p>\n

McGinn was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to injury to a child. Mackey was arrested for injury to a child in January, but she has yet to be indicted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY \u2014 Our news partners at KETK report that a Smith County father was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday after he was arrested for abusing a three-month-old baby in January. According to the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office, around 6 p.m. on Jan. 8, a deputy responded to a Tyler hospital, where … Continue reading Father sentenced to 10 years for child abuse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1430113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/ZACH-176x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 01:05:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/ZACH-176x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430096"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430412,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430096\/revisions\/1430412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}