{"id":21973,"date":"2025-06-04T16:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trial-set-for-shayne-rowley-in-child-sexual-assault-case\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:10:20","slug":"trial-set-for-shayne-rowley-in-child-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trial-set-for-shayne-rowley-in-child-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial set for Shayne Rowley in child sexual assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2bc0b29e-3913-51ce-aac4-de54abe3b749&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1096\" alt=\"Shayne Rowley will have arraignment on June 2 after allegations of child sexual assault.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Shayne Rowley will have arraignment on June 2 after allegations of child sexual assault.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Shayne Lyle Rowley, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting a minor in Cortez, will face a jury trial beginning Oct. 27 in 22nd Judicial District Court, with Judge William Furse presiding.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is expected to run Oct. 27-31 at 8:30 a.m. each day. Motion hearings will be held Sept. 11 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began June 6, 2024, after a woman and child reported multiple assaults. At a forensic interview on June 11, 2024 at the Four Corners Child Advocacy Center, the child described several incidents involving Rowley, a truck driver from Utah, that allegedly took place over multiple years. The child also expressed concern that the child\u2019s friends could have been assaulted by Rowley.<\/p>\n<p>The woman shared information about the minor\u2019s behavioral changes as well, including details about refusals to spend time with Rowley unless accompanied by friends or siblings, a pattern that intensified around four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rowley\u2019s criminal history includes past assault and domestic violence convictions. The woman also provided the police with text messages and information surrounding other alleged domestic violence incidents involving Rowley.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, which was officially filed on June 13, 2024, Rowley faces a Class 3 felony for sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, a Class 4 felony and a Class 2 misdemeanor, among other potential charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pleaded not guilty at his most recent hearing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,133,168,28,60,29,76],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-u-s-22nd-judicial-district"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77531,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973\/revisions\/77531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21973"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}