{"id":377186,"date":"2026-07-17T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377186\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:24:18","slug":"dallas-man-charged-after-assault-linked-to-unborn-childs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377186\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas man charged after assault linked to unborn child\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 18-year-old man faces an additional felony<\/a> charge after Dallas police linked an assault on a pregnant woman to the death<\/a> of her unborn child.<\/p>\n

The man was arrested May 21 on a charge of assault of a pregnant person, a third-degree felony. Police said he has since also been charged with injury to a child<\/a>, a first-degree felony.<\/p>\n

Under Texas law, an assault causing bodily injury may be elevated to a third-degree felony when the accused knows the person assaulted is pregnant. A third-degree felony is punishable by two to 10 years in prison, while a first-degree felony carries a sentence of five to 99 years or life.<\/p>\n

Officers responded May 16 to a hospital to investigate an assault that occurred about 5\u00a0p.m. the previous day in the 200 block of Fran Way.<\/p>\n

Investigators said the woman was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle after the assault. While she was receiving treatment, medical personnel determined that her unborn child had died.<\/p>\n

Further investigation connected the child\u2019s death to the physical assault, prompting authorities to file the additional charge, police said.<\/p>\n

The accused and the woman knew each other, though police did not disclose the nature of their relationship.<\/p>\n

He remained in the Dallas County jail. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information may contact detective A. Joslin at 214-671-4095 or adam.joslin@dallaspolice.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man faces an additional felony charge after Dallas police linked an assault on a pregnant woman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,88032,87998,89138],"class_list":["post-377186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377186","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=377186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}