{"id":122993,"date":"2026-01-14T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122993\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:21:08","slug":"plano-man-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-child-pornography-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122993\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano man sentenced to seven years in child pornography case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Plano man is being sentenced to seven years in prison in a child pornography case.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five-year-old Joshua D. French pleaded guilty last month. He will be required to register as a sex offender for life and will serve three years of parole following his prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation involved multiple law enforcement agencies and began with a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force regarding an X account that was later linked to French. Investigators say the account had shared images of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>French\u2019s home was searched in November of 2024, leading to his arrest in March of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Plano man is being sentenced to seven years in prison in a child pornography case. Twenty-five-year-old Joshua&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[66,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-122993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-local","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}