A 37-year-old private music instructor was arrested Monday evening in Plano for allegedly sexually abusing a child.
The suspect Jun Guo gave lessons from his home located in the 3600 block of Estacado Lane, where the continuous assault of a pupil under age 14 is said by police to have taken place.
In Texas penal code, the continuous sexual abuse of a child under age 14 is defined as “two or more acts” occurring “during a period that is 30 or more days in duration.” It entails a first-degree felony charge which is only surpassed by that of capital murder in terms of severity.
As such, if found guilty Guo would face between 25 and 99 years in prison with no possibility of early release.
Plano Police Department continues to investigate the case and has asked the public to come forward with any information that might be relevant to this or any similar incident at 972-941-2148.
Since being taken into police custody at around 7 p.m. on June 5, Guo has been held at the Collin County Detention Center on a bond of $75,000.
Sexual assault and crimes against children continue to be a serious problem in North Texas.
In late May, Darren Frank McCoy, 55, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing and transporting child pornography, as The Dallas Express reported.
The McKinney resident was a gymnastics instructor and cheerleading coach until he was accused of recording minors for the purpose of pornography and of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old over the course of six years.
In Dallas County, the Crimes Against Children Division receives approximately 700 cases involving crimes against children each year. These include incidents of sexual assault, physical abuse, neglect, and murder.
Dallas PD also has a unit dedicated to these crimes, despite suffering from officer shortages.
As Police Chief Eddie Garcia explained to The Dallas Express last month, “We need hundreds of more officers in the city of Dallas.”
Executive Assistant Chief David Pughes told reporters in 2020, “I think the ideal number [for Dallas PD] would be somewhere where we were at previously, 3,500, 3,600 officers,” according to NBC 5.
“There is a direct correlation between the number of officers you have and the ability to control violent crime,” Pughes continued. “You can put together specific groups of people to go out and target these locations.”
In Fort Worth, the downtown area is patrolled by Fort Worth PD bike patrols and private uniformed security guards.
Downtown Fort Worth also sees considerably less violent crime than downtown Dallas — four times fewer assaults, according to data from the Metroplex Civic and Business Association, as The Dallas Express reported.
