{"id":452661,"date":"2026-10-01T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452661\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:06:07","slug":"travis-county-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-child-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452661\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis County man sentenced to life in prison for child sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas  \u2014 A Travis County jury has sentenced a 55-year-old man to life in prison after convicting him of continuous sexual abuse of a child, according to the Travis County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors found Phillip Sorrentino guilty Friday, Sept. 25, of one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child, three counts of sexual assault of a child and three counts of sexual performance by a child, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/one-dead-in-single-vehicle-crash-in-e-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | One dead in single-vehicle crash in E Austin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the jury sentenced Sorrentino to life in prison on the continuous sexual abuse charge and 20 years on each of the remaining counts. The sentences will be served concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>The Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office arrested Sorrentino in August 2022. He was indicted in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our office is grateful to our dedicated staff and law enforcement partners, who worked tirelessly to hold the defendant accountable and seek justice for the victim,&#8221; Travis County District Attorney Jos\u00e9 Garza said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A Travis County jury has sentenced a 55-year-old man to life in prison after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-452661","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\/452661","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=452661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}