{"id":480756,"date":"2026-10-29T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480756\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:00:11","slug":"collin-county-softball-coach-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-for-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480756\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin County softball coach sentenced to decades in prison for abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former child&#8217;s youth softball coach has been sentenced to prison after years of abusing a young girl. <\/p>\n<p>37-year-old Michael Angel Garcia, of Prosper, was convicted of Continuous Sexual Assault of a Child under 14 and Sexual Assault of a Child. <\/p>\n<p>Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis says Garcia used his position to sexually abuse the victim for years. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The abuse continued until she became pregnant with his child,&#8221; Willis said. &#8220;Those who abuse children while in a position of trust will be held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was accused of sexually abusing the girl from the age of six to 14 years old when she became pregnant. <\/p>\n<p>Tests determined that Garcia was the father of the baby.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was sentenced to 50 years in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former child&#8217;s youth softball coach has been sentenced to prison after years of abusing a young girl.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2118,139859,51973,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-480756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-child-abuse","tag-collin-county-district-attorney","tag-collin-county-texas","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480756","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=480756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}