{"id":1512115,"date":"2026-06-03T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512115"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:32:57","slug":"sexual-abuse-conviction-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512115","title":{"rendered":"Sexual abuse conviction upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"HENDERSON COUNTY – A Scurry man who was found guilty of repeatedly sexually abusing a child in Henderson County, and given a life sentence, was upheld by an appeals court. Manuel Lynn Tijerina, 42, appealed his conviction to the Twelfth Court of Appeals, claiming the trial court had improperly admitted testimony from the victim’s relative, according to the Henderson County District Attorney’s Office. Testimony revealed Tijerina exposed the victim to pornography, touched her inappropriately, and made sexual remarks to her. <\/p>\n

In June 2025, Tijerina was found guilty of child sexual abuse and given a life sentence without the possibility of release. According to evidence presented during Tijerina’s initial trial, Child Protective Services sent Eustace PD a report regarding a child-related case in July 2021. The child’s older sibling testified before the jury during Tijerina’s 2021 trial about the physical abuse they witnessed Tijerina inflict on their mother. The victim’s stepmother testified about the effects of the abuse on the victim during the trial’s punishment phase. A prior protective order against Tijerina involving another woman was also presented to the jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HENDERSON COUNTY – A Scurry man who was found guilty of repeatedly sexually abusing a child in Henderson County, and given a life sentence, was upheld by an appeals court. Manuel Lynn Tijerina, 42, appealed his conviction to the Twelfth Court of Appeals, claiming the trial court had improperly admitted testimony from the victim’s relative, … Continue reading Sexual abuse conviction upheld<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1512116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 21:20:00","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\/1512115","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\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512190,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512115\/revisions\/1512190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}