{"id":3410,"date":"2025-10-14T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3410\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:08:07","slug":"collin-county-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-child-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3410\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin County man sentenced to life in prison for child sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A registered sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/collin-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/collin-county\/\">Collin County<\/a> jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting a girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">David R. Sanchez, 66, of Princeton was convicted Oct. 9 of two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact with an 11-year-old girl, according to the Collin County District Attorney\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Sanchez was previously convicted in 2008 of indecency with a child by sexual contact in McLennan County and sentenced to eight years in prison. He was released in 2013 and moved to Princeton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable that someone who has already served time for sexually abusing a child chose to do it again,\u201d Collin County district attorney Greg Willis said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In September 2024, a neighbor noticed Sanchez regularly talking to the 11-year-old girl at a bus stop, according to the news release. He offered her candy, money, and toys and told her to keep quiet about the abuse. The girl later told her mother, which initiated a police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__2UraD flex-none object-cover dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EAKO4T4YWVBDTJLFHATJHZFXSM.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Powers, 45, of Southlake leaves the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Worth with...\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The child provided detailed information of the abuse after being forensically interviewed at the Children\u2019s Advocacy Center at Collin County, the release said. Sanchez was again arrested for indecency with a child by sexual contact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jurors also heard about Sanchez\u2019s 1986 attempted voluntary manslaughter conviction and two pending stalking charges of two children in Milam County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cBecause of this brave young victim and the tireless work of Princeton Police and our prosecution team, this predator will never again be free to harm another child, and our community is safer for it,\u201d said Willis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A registered sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison after a Collin County jury found him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,815,294,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-3410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-collin-county","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","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=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}