SAN MARCOS - Manuel Balderas, 49, of Kyle was sentenced to 40 years in prison by a jury on Sept. 24, for multiple counts of sexual assault, continuous sexual abuse of a child and indecency with a child. The jury assessed punishment and Judge Bruce Boyer stacked three of the counts to total 40 years....

April is both Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Awareness month. The following article is the final article of a five-week series focusing on raising awareness about sexual assault and child abuse. Locally, HCWC served 616 community members that experienced sexual assault or abuse and 899 children that...

The following story includes details of sexual assault that may be disturbing to some readers. Please proceed with caution. SAN MARCOS — Lilly Roberts’ life slowed down on Thursday, April 25, as she and her family sat on the front bench inside the courthouse, while Hays County 22nd District Judge Br...

SAN MARCOS – A Kyle man has been sentenced to a total of 52 years in prison for sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s young daughter. Jacob Earl Shirejian, 44, was sentenced Monday, Jan. 8 on two first-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two second-degree felony counts of...

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....

By Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center Staff Member Two in five women and one in five men will experience a form of sexual assault in their lifetime.   Recognizing sexual violence is an important first step to preventing sexual violence is recognizing its many forms, including sexual assault and sexual har...

By Jennifer Moreno, Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center Advocacy & Resource Program Director, in collaboration with Cari Borremans, HCWC Executive Assistant April is both Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Awareness month. 2 in 5 women and 1 in 5 men will experience a form of sexual assault in their lifetime. ...

When 16-year-old Johnson High student Emily Polk finally mustered up the courage to speak up about being sexually assaulted by her teammate, she found nobody from the school that would listen. Months after the incident, her mother found out and told officials at the school, but she too faced indiffe...

By Megan Osborne, HCWC Prevention Educator In the wake of the #metoo movement, many parents, teachers and caregivers want to know what we should be teaching young people. As an educator and mother, I get questions like “what age should these conversations start?” and, more often, “what should these ...

A Corpus Christi man who is alleged to have sexually assaulted relatives for close to a decade now faces multiple child sexual assault charges in Hays and Nueces Counties. Salvador Jimenez, 40, was booked into the Hays County Jail July 25 on one count of sexual abuse of a child and two counts of ind...