{"id":224868,"date":"2012-11-16T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=224868"},"modified":"2012-11-18T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T13:03:38","slug":"man-gets-life-in-prison-for-childs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=224868","title":{"rendered":"Man Gets Life in Prison for Child&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=224869\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-224869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/11\/simon_lopez-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"simon_lopez\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-224869\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; 28-year-old child death defendant Simon Lopez has been sentenced to life in prison after entering a guilty plea Friday morning in the 7th Smith County Judicial Court.  KETK reports the case involved the murder of Emma Torres&#8217;s one-year-old son, Jeremy Silva, in 2010.  Authorities say Silva died from blunt force trauma.  Lopez had been watching him at the time. He called Torres&#8217;s relatives to tell them that the boy wasn&#8217;t breathing, but then fled the scene.  He was later arrested in Mexico, and was arraigned on capital murder charges. Emma Torres, the 21-year-old mother charged in the death, was sentenced in October to two years in a state jail facility for child abandonment\/endangering a child after she pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; 28-year-old child death defendant Simon Lopez has been sentenced to life in prison after entering a guilty plea Friday morning in the 7th Smith County Judicial Court. KETK reports the case involved the murder of Emma Torres&#8217;s one-year-old son, Jeremy Silva, in 2010. Authorities say Silva died from blunt force trauma. Lopez had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=224868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Gets Life in Prison for Child&#8217;s Death<\/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-224868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 00:38:35","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\/224868","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=224868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225157,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224868\/revisions\/225157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}