{"id":222126,"date":"2012-11-02T14:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=222126"},"modified":"2012-11-04T05:23:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T11:23:42","slug":"athens-man-sentenced-to-life-for-raping-his-6-year-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=222126","title":{"rendered":"Athens Man Sentenced to Life for Raping His 6-Year-Old Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=222127\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-222127\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/11\/horace_joe_barker_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"horace_joe_barker_\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-222127\" \/><\/a>ATHENS \u2014 It took less than 30 minutes for a Henderson County jury to sentence Horace \u201cJoe\u201d Barker, 47, of Athens, to life in prison Friday morning after jurors convicted him of aggravated sexual assault late Thursday night. According to KETK and the Henderson County DA\u2019s office, the conviction stems from the 2003 aggravated sexual assault of Barker\u2019s six year old daughter. During sentencing, the jury heard evidence that Barker was previously convicted in 2007 of sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and had physically abused several women with whom he\u2019d had relationships over twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2014 It took less than 30 minutes for a Henderson County jury to sentence Horace \u201cJoe\u201d Barker, 47, of Athens, to life in prison Friday morning after jurors convicted him of aggravated sexual assault late Thursday night. According to KETK and the Henderson County DA\u2019s office, the conviction stems from the 2003 aggravated sexual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=222126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athens Man Sentenced to Life for Raping His 6-Year-Old Daughter<\/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-222126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 10:50:55","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\/222126","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=222126"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222465,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222126\/revisions\/222465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}