HOUSTON – The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has reported a former pastor has been convicted of sexually abusing children who were member’s of his church\u00a0<\/p>\n
Damien Deon Blevins was found guilty of continuous trafficking of a child after he reportedly used his position at Deep Water Ministries in Spring, Texas, to target young members of his congregation.<\/p>\n
According to the DA’s Office, the abuse began in 2010 when Blevins targeted a child who was among the church’s earliest members. Years later, between May 2019 and May 2023, he sexually abused two other children.<\/p>\n
During the trial, prosecutors outlined how Blevins leveraged his ministry to gain access to the teenagers. One of the survivors said Blevins assaulted them in the church itself, while a second survivor testified that he sexually assaulted and threatened in his home.<\/p>\n
Blevins was sentenced to 35 years in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
The Harris County DA’s Iffice said this is the first time they have had the necessary evidence to officially try a person for Continuous Trafficking of a Child since the state law was established in 2011.<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
If you or someone you know is a survivor of sexual assault, exploitation, or human trafficking, please know that you are not alone and support is available.<\/p>\n
National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-373-7888<\/a><\/p>\n National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: 1-800-843-5678<\/a><\/p>\n The Source: The information in this article was obtained directly from details provided by prosecutors and official trial statements regarding the sentencing handled by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has reported a former pastor has been convicted of sexually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-350333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350333","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=350333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}