{"id":1492233,"date":"2026-03-28T19:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1492233"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:56:27","slug":"county-holds-one-for-child-sex-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1492233","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for sexual abuse of child under 14 in Hopkins County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOPKINS COUNTY \u2013 A man was arrested in Hopkins County on Friday for allegedly sexually abusing a child under 14 years old, according to our news partner KETK and the Hopkins County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The sheriff\u2019s office said in a press release that a report of a past-occurrence of sexual assault involving a juvenile was received by deputies on Wednesday. Over the next two days, sheriff\u2019s office investigators did interviews and gathered evidence with the help of the Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Rojas Tellez was also interview during the investigation and according to the sheriff\u2019s office, he admitted to having inappropriate sexual contact with a minor. Tellez was then taken into custody and is currently being held in the Hopkins County Jail on a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14-years-old and is on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office stated that they are continuing to investigate this case but that no further information will be released at this time in order to protect the victim\u2019s privacy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOPKINS COUNTY \u2013 A man was arrested in Hopkins County on Friday for allegedly sexually abusing a child under 14 years old, according to our news partner KETK and the Hopkins County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The sheriff\u2019s office said in a press release that a report of a past-occurrence of sexual assault involving a juvenile was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1492233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man arrested for sexual abuse of child under 14 in Hopkins County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news-archive"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 21:18:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492233","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=1492233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492382,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492233\/revisions\/1492382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}