{"id":185486,"date":"2012-05-02T17:55:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=185486"},"modified":"2012-05-03T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T22:08:15","slug":"east-texas-man-acquitted-in-death-of-infant-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=185486","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Man Acquitted in Death of Infant Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=185487\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-185487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/thumb_Lady-Justice1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_Lady-Justice\" width=\"88\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-185487\" \/><\/a>LUFKIN (AP) \u2014 An East Texas man whose infant son died while sleeping with his parents in 2009 has been acquitted in the case of another child who likewise died while sleeping with his parents. KTRE-TV of Lufkin reports an Angelina County jury deliberated about six hours before finding Mark Clark not guilty of child endangerment in the 2010 death of his and wife Vanessa&#8217;s 2-month-old son, Tristan.<\/p>\n<p>Clark had asserted he was asleep when his wife placed Tristan in their bed, despite his pleas that she not. Tristan was suffocated, just as 1-month-old Christian Clark was when Vanessa Clark placed him in bed with her and her husband in 2009. Vanessa Clark was convicted of child endangerment last month and awaits sentencing of up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN (AP) \u2014 An East Texas man whose infant son died while sleeping with his parents in 2009 has been acquitted in the case of another child who likewise died while sleeping with his parents. KTRE-TV of Lufkin reports an Angelina County jury deliberated about six hours before finding Mark Clark not guilty of child &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=185486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Man Acquitted in Death of Infant Son<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 05:18:02","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\/185486","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185486"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185826,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185486\/revisions\/185826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}