{"id":416133,"date":"2026-08-25T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:22:09","slug":"travis-county-jury-sentences-man-to-25-years-in-child-sexual-abuse-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416133\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis County jury sentences man to 25 years in child sexual abuse case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A 44-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after a Travis County jury convicted him of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 in a case involving two victims.<\/p>\n<p>The Travis County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said Uriel Flores-Dehuma was found guilty of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 on Aug. 13. The following day, the jury sentenced him to 25 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Jury selection began Aug. 10, and prosecutors began presenting evidence the following day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/man-sentenced-to-40-years-for-2025-murder-of-15-year-old-in-se-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO| Man sentenced to 40 years for 2025 murder of 15-year-old in SE Austin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The case dates back to February 2021, when Austin police arrested Flores-Dehuma and charged him with continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 involving two victims.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DA&#8217;s office, Flores-Dehuma was reindicted in April 2026 ahead of trial on one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, six counts of indecency with a child by contact, and one count of indecency with a child by exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Police Department Detective Gabriel Fernandez investigated the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A 44-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after a Travis County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-416133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416133","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=416133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}