{"id":230931,"date":"2026-04-01T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:05:08","slug":"lubbock-man-accused-of-horrific-abuse-of-a-child-found-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230931\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Man Accused of &#8220;Horrific Abuse&#8221; of a Child Found Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/kfyo.com\/tags\/lubbock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lubbock<\/a> man was found guilty this week on Wednesday of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. David Minor, 42 years-old, now faces anywhere from 5 to 99 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Minor Accused of &#8220;Horrific Abuse&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/lubbock-man-found-guilty-of-horrific-child-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KAMC<\/a>, Minor was indicted in 2021 when he was accused of repeatedly beating household members. According to court documents Minor was accused of throwing objects, hitting or punching children, and in September 2021 he was accused of putting a loaded gun into a child&#8217;s mouth and threatened to shoot.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/lubbock-man-found-guilty-of-horrific-child-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KAMC<\/a>, prosecutor Abigail Brown said the abuse happened for years.<\/p>\n<p>Minor waited for the perfect opportunity to abuse the child, Brown said. She described incidents of knives being thrown, and the child being beaten with sticks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was horrific abuse over the course of years,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfyo.com\/bigamy-youth-pastor-lubbock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: Former Lubbock Youth Pastor Sentenced to Jail Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After being found guilty on Wednesday, Minor will go before the jury for his punishment. That punishment could range from five to 99 years or life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>101 Legal Terms in Texas All Citizens Should Know<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n<p>9 Most Common Cybercrimes in TexasHave you ever been a victim of any of these common cybercrimes in Texas, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipdraylaw.com\/top-cybercrimes-in-texas\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Philip D. Ray Law<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lubbock man was found guilty this week on Wednesday of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-230931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230931","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=230931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}