Nathan Grassie, 49, is back in front of a Lubbock jury, facing multiple child sex abuse charges. He was first arrested in 2022, managed to snag a mistrial in 2023, and has spent the past couple of years bouncing between GPS monitoring, jail time for violating bond conditions, and then posting a cool $100,000 to get back out. Now, the legal carousel spins again.
Court documents describe abuse that allegedly began when one victim was younger than 10. Another case centers on Grassie’s role as a youth group advisor, where a child at a “sleepover” says Grassie showed him porn and groped him. Investigators also found Grassie had been watching videos of adult men sexually abusing boys—just in case anyone thought this was all a misunderstanding.
Despite all this, it took years and multiple trials to (hopefully) get justice moving. In the meantime, Grassie’s been living under travel restrictions, GPS surveillance, and the kind of “don’t go near kids” rules that usually scream: maybe this guy shouldn’t be free at all.
Only in Lubbock do you get more reruns of a predator’s trial than you do of The Office on basic cable.
