{"id":477469,"date":"2026-10-26T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477469\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:06:15","slug":"5-million-bond-for-humble-mother-accused-of-helping-her-husband-abuse-their-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477469\/","title":{"rendered":"$5 million bond for Humble mother accused of helping her husband abuse their daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 KPRC 2 News is using pseudonyms in this story to protect the survivors of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Humble mother accused of helping her husband sexually abuse two of her daughters is now in custody, and a judge set her bond at $5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">We first told you about this case in September. At that time, a felony charge had been filed, but the woman had not been arrested. She was booked into the Harris County Jail on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Because this case involves survivors of sexual abuse, we are not using the real names of anyone involved. We are calling the mother \u201cMaria.\u201d Using her real name could identify her daughters, and we won\u2019t do that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Maria is charged with trafficking a child and continuous abuse of a child. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/30\/humble-mother-accused-of-using-daughter-in-alleged-sexual-abuse-surrogacy-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/30\/humble-mother-accused-of-using-daughter-in-alleged-sexual-abuse-surrogacy-scheme\/\">Humble mother accused of using daughter in alleged sexual-abuse \u201csurrogacy\u201d scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The allegations are hard to read. Prosecutors say Maria went along with her husband, \u201cDerek,\u201d as he sexually abused her teenage daughter, \u201cLena,\u201d so Lena could become pregnant. According to court records, Lena told investigators Derek called it surrogacy because Maria could not have children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Records say Maria hid Lena\u2019s pregnancies and raised some of the children as her own. That includes \u201cAva,\u201d born in 2009. Investigators say Maria even pretended to be pregnant and pretended to go to the hospital to give birth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Years later, Ava told investigators Derek sexually abused her too, starting when she was 12. The charging document alleges Maria was involved and told Ava not to tell anyone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Ava eventually did speak up. That\u2019s how this came to light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Derek is already serving a life sentence. A Harris County jury convicted him in August of Aggravated sexual assault of a child. <\/p>\n<p>If you suspect a child is being abused <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">You can report it to the Texas Abuse Hotline at 800.252.5400 or online at <a href=\"https:\/\/txabusehotline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/txabusehotline.org\">txabusehotline.org<\/a> . <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The National Sexual Assault Hotline is available 24 hours a day at 800-656-4673<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 KPRC 2 News is using pseudonyms in this story to protect the survivors of sexual abuse.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,1542,161326,6131,37292,141531,161325],"class_list":["post-477469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble","tag-national-sexual-assualt-hotline","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-assault-of-a-child","tag-surrogacy","tag-texas-abuse-hotline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477469","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=477469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}