An accusation involving a child puts everything you have at risk. We defend it with rigor and discretion.
A charge that names a child as the victim moves fast and reaches your custody case, your career, and your freedom all at once. We have won dismissals in injury to a child and injury to a disabled individual cases, and in juvenile court we defeated the State’s attempt to certify a client as an adult before that case was dismissed. Call before you give anyone a statement.
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These cases are charged first and investigated second.
Injury to a child is a felony in Texas at every level, even when the allegation grew out of an accident, a fall, or a moment of discipline. Prosecutors charge on the injury first and sort out intent later, and an arrest often happens before any meaningful investigation of how the injury actually occurred. A conviction reaches every background check, and for teachers, nurses, coaches, and anyone else who works near children, the accusation alone can put a career on hold.
The criminal case is never the only case. A report triggers a parallel investigation by Child Protective Services that can restrict your access to your own children, place your name in the State’s child abuse registry, and put you in front of caseworkers whose notes can end up in the prosecutor’s file. People lose the criminal case in a CPS interview they sat for without a lawyer.
When the allegation is sexual, the exposure includes some of the longest sentence ranges in Texas law and sex offender registration. And when the accused is a minor, the State can ask the juvenile court to certify the child to stand trial as an adult, trading the juvenile system for adult felony court. That hearing can be fought. We fought one in an aggravated sexual assault of a child case, certification was denied, and the case was dismissed.
Quiet, methodical, and built on the evidence the State skipped.
We work these cases without public posturing and without conceding the State’s version of events. The defense runs on records, timelines, and expert scrutiny, not volume.
Defend both cases at once
The criminal charge and the CPS investigation feed each other, and a statement made to a caseworker can become the State’s best exhibit. We coordinate the defense across both from day one, so nothing said in the family case ambushes you in the criminal one.
Make the medical evidence answer for itself
Injury to a child cases often rest on a first impression formed in an emergency room. Falls, accidents, and underlying medical conditions get ruled in or out by records, timelines, and expert review, not assumption. That scrutiny is how an intentional injury charge becomes a misdemeanor or a dismissal.
Examine how the child’s account was taken
A child’s statement is shaped by how it was drawn out. We review the forensic interview against accepted protocols and look for leading questions, repeat interviews, and the influence of the adults standing behind the allegation. The account the jury would hear is not always the account the child first gave.
Keep a juvenile case in juvenile court
When the State moves to certify a minor as an adult, the certification hearing is the whole fight, because it decides which system, and which punishment range, the case lives in. We contested certification in an aggravated sexual assault of a child case, the court denied it, and the case was dismissed.
Results in cases involving alleged child victims.
Outcomes below come from both attorneys.
- Dismissed Aggravated sexual assault of a child, juvenile Adult certification denied
- Dismissed Injury to a child
- Reduced Injury to a child, intentional, reduced to misdemeanor deferred probation
- Dismissed Injury to a disabled individual
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every case depends on its own facts.
Crimes Against Children: the questions clients ask first.
CPS wants to interview me. Do I have to cooperate?
It was an accident. Can they really charge me with a felony?
Will I lose access to my children while the case is pending?
My teenager is the one accused. Can they really be tried as an adult?
The call is free. Waiting is not.
Evidence goes stale, witnesses move, and deadlines pass whether you have hired a lawyer or not. The earlier we start, the more we can do.
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