A San Patricio County jury sentenced a man to 174 years in prison after convictions on charges including child sexual assault, trafficking and exploitation.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A San Patricio County jury sentenced a Houston man to 174 years in prison on Friday after convicting him on multiple felony charges involving the sexual assault and exploitation of a child, according to District Attorney Margie Silva.<\/p>\n
“In San Patricio County we will not tolerate the trafficking and sexual exploitation of children,” Silva told 3NEWS. “Predators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Silva, Samuel Rocky Munoz was found guilty on several counts, including aggravated sexual assault of a child, compelling prostitution of a minor and possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n
Munoz was sentenced to 75 years in prison and fined $10,000 for aggravated sexual assault of a child. Additional sentences include 20 years for promoting prostitution of a person under 18, 20 years for compelling prostitution of a minor and 99 years for employing or inducing a child under 14 to engage in sexual performance.<\/p>\n
Silva said Munoz also received 20 years for possession of child pornography, enhanced to a second-degree felony, and 75 years along with a $5,000 fine for an additional possession charge.<\/p>\n
Counts one through six will run concurrently, while counts six and seven will run consecutively. The judge ordered the sentences to be stacked, resulting in a total of 174 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Below is a full list of Munoz’s charges:<\/p>\n
Count 1 \u2013 Aggravated sexual assault of a child\/1st degree felony \u2013 75 years $10,000 fine<\/p>\n
Count 3 \u2013 Promoting prostitution person < 18 YOA\/1st degree felony \u2013 20 years<\/p>\n
Count 4 \u2013 Compelling Prostitution under age 18\/1st degree felony \u2013 20 years<\/p>\n
Count 5 \u2013 Sexual Performance <14 employ\/induce\/authorize\/1st degree felony \u2013 99 years<\/p>\n
Count 6 \u2013 Possession of Child Pornography Video\/3rd degree felony enhanced to 2nd degree \u2013 20 years<\/p>\n
Count 7 – Possession of Child Pornography Video\/1st degree felony \u2013 75 years $5,000 fine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Patricio County jury sentenced a man to 174 years in prison after convictions on charges including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-213792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213792","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=213792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}