{"id":438043,"date":"2026-09-16T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438043\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:18:11","slug":"former-texas-charter-academy-athletic-director-indicted-on-8-felony-charges-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438043\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Texas Charter Academy Athletic Director indicted on 8 felony charges, arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANGELO, Texas \u2014 An update on a story that we first brought you back in March.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED| <a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/families-sue-san-angelo-charter-school-after-disciplinary-drill-sends-students-to-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lawsuit Filed Against San Angelo Charter School Over Alleged Student Abuse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Texas Leadership Charter Academy San Angelo athletic director Kent Sherrill was arrested Tuesday night after he was indicted on 8 felony charges.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Former Texas Charter Academy Athletic Director indicted on 8 felony charges, arrested(TGCSO)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a044828c-ac1b-45ee-ac88-5c380fb47d41-KentSherrill.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Texas Charter Academy Athletic Director indicted on 8 felony charges, arrested(TGCSO)<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Sherrill is accused of recklessly or with criminal negligence causing bodily injury to the children by requiring them to repeatedly perform pushups and not letting them stop.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED|<a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/multiple-students-allegedly-hospitalized-after-extreme-disciplinary-drill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/multiple-students-allegedly-hospitalized-after-extreme-disciplinary-drill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Multiple students allegedly hospitalized after extreme disciplinary drill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Court documents also alleged Sherrill placed the children in imminent danger of death, bodily injury or physical or mental impairment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANGELO, Texas \u2014 An update on a story that we first brought you back in March. RELATED|&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-438043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438043","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=438043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}