{"id":364061,"date":"2026-07-07T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:00:10","slug":"man-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-child-in-houston-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364061\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of sexually assaulting child in Houston County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HOUSTON COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; A man is behind bars after a child accused him of touching them inappropriately, according to the Houston County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said they received a call Monday, June 29, regarding a child\u2019s outcry against Ellis Johnta Izquierdo, 37, of Houston, for touching them inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, a forensic interview was conducted and the child confirmed the outcry made earlier that morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said Izquierdo was arrested for sexual assault of a child at a home on FM 2663, just east of Latexo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Izquierdo was booked into the Houston County Jail on a bond $300,000. The sheriff\u2019s office said he was on parole at the time of his arrest but it has since been revoked.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Ellis Johnta Izquierdo, 37, of Houston\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AXFTW5Q24FEWHIEIXWGQW7MDIM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Ellis Johnta Izquierdo, 37, of Houston(Houston County Jail)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTRE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; A man is behind bars after a child accused him of touching them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,9989,58,57,37292],"class_list":["post-364061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-county","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-sexual-assault-of-a-child"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364061","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=364061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}