{"id":1483319,"date":"2026-02-24T22:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1483319"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:49:24","slug":"life-sentence-for-child-sex-abuse-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1483319","title":{"rendered":"Life for child sex abuse, assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/2026-02-24_225021-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1483320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/2026-02-24_225021-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/2026-02-24_225021.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>ATHENS \u2014 An East Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of sexual abuse against children and sexual assault of a minor. According to an indictment from the 173rd Judicial District and our news partner KETK, 35-year-old Ashton Todd Salsman was accused of committing two or more acts of sexual abuse against minors from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Salsman pleaded guilty to one count of continuous sexual abuse of a young child and one count of aggravated sexual assault against a child. Following his guilty plea, Salsman was sentenced by the 392nd District Court to life in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2014 An East Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of sexual abuse against children and sexual assault of a minor. According to an indictment from the 173rd Judicial District and our news partner KETK, 35-year-old Ashton Todd Salsman was accused of committing two or more acts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1483319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life for child sex abuse, assault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1483606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/02\/2026-02-24_225021-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 23:41:38","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\/2026\/02\/2026-02-24_225021-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483319","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483319"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483669,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483319\/revisions\/1483669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}