{"id":281015,"date":"2026-05-06T08:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281015\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:33:16","slug":"texas-man-charged-with-having-sexual-relations-with-teenage-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281015\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man charged with having sexual relations with teenage girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) -A man from Texas is being charged with traveling from Texas to St. Louis County to engage in sexual relations with a teenage girl for the course of several months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Michael Cantu, 26, is being charged with statutory rape, statutory sodomy, violation of a child protection order and property damage. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Michael Cantu, 26, is being charged with statutory rape, statutory sodomy, violation of a...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A2JNXFCOHJHMLJ5ZJXXCGUJOGM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"980\" \/>Michael Cantu, 26, is being charged with statutory rape, statutory sodomy, violation of a child protection order and property damage.(St. Louis County Jail)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">According to court records, the mother of the 16-year-old girl became aware of there being a possible interaction between her daughter and Cantu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">During an investigation, several texts were found between Cantu and the girl where sexual interactions were confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Cantu was taken into custody for violating a child protection order he had been previously served with. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">When police questioned Cantu, he confessed to having had sexual relations with the minor for months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Cantu also admitted he knew the teen\u2019s age before traveling from Texas to Missouri. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">During an encounter with police, Cantu kicked a police car door, causing property damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Cantu has a previous 2017 charge for enticement out of San Marcos, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KMOV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) -A man from Texas is being charged with traveling from Texas to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103599,45818,66,223,103600,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-281015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-first-alert-4","tag-kmov","tag-local","tag-news","tag-sexual-relations","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281015","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=281015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}