{"id":170281,"date":"2026-02-18T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170281\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:18:11","slug":"north-texas-figure-skating-coach-charged-with-indecency-with-a-child-records-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170281\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas figure skating coach charged with indecency with a child, records say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A North Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/figure-skating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">figure skating<\/a> coach is facing a charge of indecency with a child, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Allen police arrested Benjamin Shroats on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ntxskatingocach.png#.png\" alt=\"ntxskatingocach.png \" height=\"774\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Collin County Jail<\/p>\n<p>During the bond hearing, the judge ordered Shroats to &#8220;not coach or teach any figure skating students.&#8221; Court paperwork did not list an attorney but indicated that Shroats planned to hire his own.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on a $100,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Many articles from recent years list Shroats as a one-time coach of Amber Glenn, a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist from Plano.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas has reached out to Allen police and is waiting for a response.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Texas figure skating coach is facing a charge of indecency with a child, police said. Allen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57316,960,294,50630,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-170281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-allen-police-department","9":"tag-collin-county","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-figure-skating","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170281","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=170281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}