{"id":355774,"date":"2026-06-30T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355774\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:14:36","slug":"former-new-deal-preacher-arrested-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355774\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New Deal preacher arrested, accused of child sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A former preacher in New Deal has been arrested accused of sexually abusing a minor from 2019 to 2020, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">48-year-old Brian Townsend was arrested and booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center on June 26. He\u2019s charged with one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lubbock Police Department began investigating Townsend in June of 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The victim told investigators the incident happened \u201cat a house in New Deal when he had a preaching job there.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Townsend was arrested by U.S. Marshalls. He is being held on a $150,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A former preacher in New Deal has been arrested accused of sexually abusing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[126567,10303,75673,294,319,251,168,170,169,27419],"class_list":["post-355774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-brian-townsend","tag-child-sex-abuse","tag-child-sex-crimes","tag-crime","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355774","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=355774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}