Child Abuse Crimes
Child Abuse crimes in Texas primarily fall into either a sexual or assaultive sub-category. Some, however, do not fall neatly into those categories. These typically require a heightened duty to care for the child in question.
The list below does not include some offenses that, although they may be child abuse in some instances, are primarily in a different category. For instance, you can be charged with Sexual Assault if you have consensual sex with a child (this is known as Statutory Rape), even though sexual assault is typically a crime involving adults.
The list below contains each of the Child Abuse offenses in Texas
- PC 15.031 – Criminal Solicitation of a Minor
- PC 21.02 – Continuous Sexual Abuse of Young Child or Children
- PC 21.11 – Indecency With a Child (Child Molestation)
- PC 21.12 – Improper Relationship Between Educator and Student
- PC 22.04 – Injury to a Child, Elderly Individual, or Disable Individual
- PC 22.041 – Abandoning or Endangering Child
- PC 22.10 – Leaving a Child in a Vehicle
- PC 25.031 – Agreement to Abduct from Custody
- PC 25.06 – Harboring Runaway Child
- PC 33.021 – Online Solicitation of a Minor*
- PC 38.17 – Failure to Stop or Report Aggravated Sexual Assault of Child
- Pc 43.24 – Sale, Distribution, or Display of Harmful Material to Minor
- PC 43.25 – Sexual Performance by a Child
- PC 43.251 – Employment Harmful to Children
- PC 43.26 – Possession or Promotion of Child Pornography
- PC 43.261 – Electronic Transmission of Certain Visual Material Depicting Minor (the law covering “sexting” between minors)
- PC 43.262 – Possession or Promotion of Lewd Visual Material Depicting Child *effective September 1, 2017
*The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that one subsection of the Online Solicitation of a Minor offense, 33.021(b), as it was written at the time, was unconstitutional.

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- 2019 Not Guilty in Collin County DWI >0.15
- 2019 Not Guilty in Dallas County Indecency with a Child
- Oral Argument at the United States Federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Prosecutorial Misconduct Claim arising out of Northern District of Texas
- 2018 Not Guilty in Martin County Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon on a Peace Officer
- Not Guilty in 2018 Dallas County DWI Trial
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- Federal sentencing results in 10 Year Downward Deviation from Sentencing Guidelines in 2018
- Not Guilty Jury Verdict for client originally accused of Intoxication Manslaughter
- Case Dismissed after picking jury in Aggravated Sexual Assault of Child case in 2017
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- 2016 Dismissal of Fort Worth Federal Possession of Obscene Visual Representation of the Sexual Abuse of Children
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