{"id":82952,"date":"2025-12-10T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82952\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:14:05","slug":"socorro-police-arrest-man-in-multi-victim-child-sexual-abuse-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82952\/","title":{"rendered":"Socorro police arrest man in multi-victim child sexual abuse case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOCORRO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Socorro Police Department has arrested a 39-year-old man in connection with a multi-victim child sexual abuse investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Thomas Abraham Drake over the weekend after the Socorro police&#8217;s Criminal Investigations Division (CID) began an investigation into Drake in October 2025. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the investigation began after receiving a report of sexual abuse involving a child under 14 years old.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, CID personnel identified Drake as the suspect and found evidence linking him to the abuse of two additional children, with incidents dating back to 2009. <\/p>\n<p>In total, three victims have been confirmed, police stated. <\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 6, CID, with support from the department&#8217;s quick reaction force tactical unit and patrol division, conducted a coordinated operation leading to Drake&#8217;s arrest. <\/p>\n<p>Drake is now held at the El Paso County Detention Facility on three counts of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a young child or disabled individual, with bonds set at $75,000, $75,000, and $100,000. <\/p>\n<p>The Socorro police said it remains committed to seeking &#8220;justice for victims and protecting the community&#8217;s most vulnerable members.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/city-of-socorro-cracks-down-on-park-fighting-rings?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">City of Socorro cracks down on park fighting rings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOCORRO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Socorro Police Department has arrested a 39-year-old man in connection with a multi-victim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-82952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82952","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=82952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}