{"id":379372,"date":"2015-07-30T11:23:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T16:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=379372"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T19:18:54","slug":"guilty-verdict-in-child-sex-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=379372","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Verdict in Child Sex Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/Thomas-Baker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/Thomas-Baker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Baker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-379398\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; A defendant has been found guilty in Smith County of continuous sexual abuse of a child.  According to the district attorney&#8217;s office, Thomas Baker, 38, requested that Judge Kerry Russell assess his sentence, and a sentencing hearing has been set for Sept. 18.  The range of punishment is 25 years to life in prison with no possibility for parole.  Prosecutors say the now 10-year-old victim testified about a pervasive pattern of sexual abuse beginning when she was 8 years old and continuing over a year and a half. It took the jury about an hour and a half to return the guilty verdict.  Russell raised Baker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bond to $600,000 pending the outcome of the sentencing hearing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A defendant has been found guilty in Smith County of continuous sexual abuse of a child. According to the district attorney&#8217;s office, Thomas Baker, 38, requested that Judge Kerry Russell assess his sentence, and a sentencing hearing has been set for Sept. 18. The range of punishment is 25 years to life in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=379372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guilty Verdict in Child Sex Trial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":379398,"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-379372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 15:17:35","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\/379372","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=379372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379399,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379372\/revisions\/379399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/379398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}