{"id":233802,"date":"2026-04-03T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233802\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:02:07","slug":"former-sabinal-high-school-teacher-track-coach-kenneth-mulkey-sentenced-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233802\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sabinal High School teacher\/track coach Kenneth Mulkey sentenced 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEL RIO, Texas &#8211; A former Sabinal High School teacher and track coach has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to sending an undercover agent posing as a young teen sexually explicit messages while near the high school.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, in October of 2024, Kenneth Mulkey, 44, used Snapchat to ask a user he believed to be a 14-year-old child for a sexually explicit photo. He was within 40 meters of Sabinal High School at the time the message was sent.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/high-school-coach-arrested-for-allegedly-attempting-to-entice-a-minor-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">High school coach arrested for allegedly attempting to entice a minor online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day, Maulkey sent a sexually explicit photo of himself to the young teen, who was an undercover agent posing as a minor.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in January of 2025 for attempted enticement of a minor and sentenced to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEL RIO, Texas &#8211; A former Sabinal High School teacher and track coach has been sentenced to 30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-233802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233802","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=233802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}