{"id":35860,"date":"2025-11-05T04:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35860\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T04:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:32:25","slug":"man-faces-enhanced-charges-as-child-molestation-trial-begins-in-lubbock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35860\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces enhanced charges as child molestation trial begins in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Jurors heard opening arguments today in a child sex abuse trial at the Lubbock County Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">58-year-old Curtis Johnson is accused of repeatedly molesting a child under the age of 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to court documents, the abuse happened from July 2020 to the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Johnson is facing enhanced charges based on previous felony convictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The trial will resume tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Jurors heard opening arguments today in a child sex abuse trial at the Lubbock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[8697,1511,1522,8838,22623,22626,66,168,13589,170,169,22625,223,22624,2128],"class_list":["post-35860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-abuse","tag-child","tag-county","tag-courthouse","tag-curtis-johnson","tag-jurors","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-county","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-molestation","tag-news","tag-sex","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35860","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=35860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}