{"id":127138,"date":"2026-01-09T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:50:09","slug":"galt-police-arrest-man-78-after-child-sexual-abuse-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127138\/","title":{"rendered":"Galt police arrest man, 78, after child sexual abuse investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Galt man is under arrest after an investigation into child sexual abuse allegations. <\/p>\n<p>Galt police say they&#8217;ve been investigating 78-year-old Henry Balliet after the mother of the alleged victims reported him to authorities. <\/p>\n<p>The alleged sexual abuse involved the woman&#8217;s three daughters and occurred over the course of several years \u2013 and across multiple jurisdictions, police say. <\/p>\n<p>Each victim was interviewed by detectives, and police say corroborating evidence was also collected.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the totality of evidence prompted detectives to establish probable cause and get a warrant for Balliet&#8217;s arrest. <\/p>\n<p>Balliet was taken into custody on Jan. 6, Galt police say, and he was booked into Sacramento County Jail. He&#8217;s facing multiple counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 and sex acts with a child under 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Galt man is under arrest after an investigation into child sexual abuse allegations. Galt police say they&#8217;ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[57712,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-127138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-galt-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}