{"id":301594,"date":"2025-10-14T03:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301594\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:28:28","slug":"former-uiw-professor-live-oak-man-sentenced-to-30-years-on-child-sexual-abuse-image-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301594\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UIW professor, Live Oak man sentenced to 30 years on child sexual abuse image charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>BEXAR COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A former University of the Incarnate Word professor is expected to spend the next three decades in prison after he was arrested and later convicted on multiple possession of child pornography charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Troy Mishler, 41, pleaded guilty to two of the 10 charges he faced on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Each charge carried a 30-year prison sentence, which are to run concurrently. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Judge Stephanie Boyd, who presided over the case in Bexar County\u2019s 187th Criminal District Court, also fined Mishler $5,000 and ordered him to register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to a January 2024 social media post, Live Oak police learned Mishler was at a November 2023 \u201cchurch-related event\u201d in Nebraska, where he confessed to \u201cwatching child pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Witnesses to Mishler\u2019s confession then reported him to Nebraska authorities, who then reported what they learned to police in Live Oak, the department said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A search warrant was executed at Mishler\u2019s Live Oak home, where electronic devices were seized, according to the social media post. When detectives arrived at his home, Mishler told them that he had viewed child sexual abuse material, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Jan. 5, 2024, Live Oak police executed an arrest warrant for Mishler and took him into custody. Mishler was booked that same day into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on a possession of child pornography charge, jail records indicate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to investigators and Bexar County court documentation, investigators found \u201cmore than five hundred (500)\u201d depictions of child sexual abuse material on Mishler\u2019s personal and work computers.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Mishler was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on possession of child pornography in January 2024. (Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A UIW spokesperson confirmed to KSAT that Mishler was an animation and game design instructor at the university for a little more than four years until his termination in January 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>More recent crime coverage on KSAT: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2013 A former University of the Incarnate Word professor is expected to spend the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7288,356,4219,14428,7202,7203,358,3187,36615,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-301594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bexar-county","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-live-oak","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-sanantonio","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-uiw","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115370400422485398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}