{"id":401747,"date":"2026-08-09T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401747\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:12:23","slug":"garza-county-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-child-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401747\/","title":{"rendered":"Garza County man sentenced to life in prison for child sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GARZA COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Garza County man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mark Anthony Porter began assaulting the victim when she was 8 years old. The abuse lasted more than seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A jury convicted Porter after 45 minutes of deliberation and handed down the maximum sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARZA COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Garza County man will spend the rest of his life in prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-401747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401747","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=401747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}