{"id":396059,"date":"2026-09-10T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396059\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:06:09","slug":"jacksonville-man-arrested-for-sexual-assault-of-a-minor-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396059\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man arrested for sexual assault of a minor | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"POLICE LIGHTS\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a63d92e0430b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WICS\/WRSP) &#8211; The Jacksonville Police Department (JPD) were made aware of a possible sexual assault that had previously occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The JPD Investigative Division began the investigation in August 2026.\u00a0 Investigators subsequently arrested Austin D. Sims, 26, for Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault with his victim being between the ages of 13-16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was known to Sims and the incident appears to be isolated.\u00a0 Sims is currently being held at the Morgan County Jail where he awaits charges from the Morgan County State\u2019s Attorney.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any further information regarding the case please contact the Jacksonville Police Department Investigative Division at 217-479-4636.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WICS\/WRSP) &#8211; The Jacksonville Police Department (JPD) were made aware of a possible sexual assault that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[692,157968,1080,9879,667,116,118,117,19243,98844,132,1311],"class_list":["post-396059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-arrest","tag-austin-d-sims","tag-criminal-charges","tag-illinois","tag-investigation","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-minor","tag-morgan-county-jail","tag-police","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}