Man guilty of sexual assault of minor

SAMUEL GARCIA

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Brittany Kelley on November 8, 2023

“You stole all of my firsts from me. All of the romantic and important milestones in my life are tainted by what you did to me. I can't get them back.” -A.C.

On Sept. 11, 2023, Samuel Garcia, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault of a child. This resulted in 10 years of deferred adjudication community supervision at his punishment hearing on Oct. 30 in front of 483rd District Judge Tanner Neidhardt in Hays County.

Garcia was arrested on Jan. 29, 2020, for five counts of sexual assault of a child that occurred in 2015. According to court documents, Garcia did: “knowingly cause the penetration of the female sexual organ of A.C.” with hi...

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