{"id":759069,"date":"2018-12-13T09:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=759069"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:38:53","slug":"former-trooper-headed-to-prison-for-sexual-abuse-of-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=759069","title":{"rendered":"Former Trooper Headed to Prison for Sexual Abuse of Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"MARSHALL — A Marshall resident and former state trooper accused of sexually abusing a child has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Louis Paul Weems pleaded guilty to indecency with a child on Dec. 3. He was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and register as a sex offender. According to the Marshall News Messenger and our news partner KETK, Weems was stationed in both Marshall and Marion County as a DPS officer. He was originally suspended from his law enforcement position in November 2017 after allegations of misconduct surfaced and a criminal investigation was launched by the Texas Rangers. Weems was indicted in April by a Cass County grand jury for continuous sexual abuse of a child, indecency with a child by contact, and indecency with a child by exposure. Weems had been employed with the department since September 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARSHALL — A Marshall resident and former state trooper accused of sexually abusing a child has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Louis Paul Weems pleaded guilty to indecency with a child on Dec. 3. He was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and register as a sex offender. According to the Marshall … Continue reading Former Trooper Headed to Prison for Sexual Abuse of Child<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":759076,"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-759069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:29:44","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\/759069","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759077,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759069\/revisions\/759077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}