2 former TYC administrators indicted on sex abuse charges

[Joanne98]

Source: AP

MONAHANS, Texas — A West Texas grand jury indicted the principal and assistant superintendent of a state juvenile prison Tuesday on charges that they sexually abused teenage inmates in their care.

The charges are the most serious to emerge from the months-old youth prison scandal that erupted after news accounts revealed a 2005 report by the Texas Rangers alleging rampant sexual abuse at the remote facility languished without any action.

Ray E. Brookins, former assistant superintendent at the Texas Youth Commission's West Texas State School, was indicted on two counts of improper relationship with a student, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and two counts of improper sexual activity with a person in custody, a felony punishable by up to two years in state prison.

Former Principal John Paul Hernandez was indicted on one count of sexual assault, nine counts of improper sexual activity with a person in custody and nine counts of improper relationship between a student and educator.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4702945.html

[nashville_brook]

1. is this the scandal that Gonzales is implicated in?

[sutz12]

2. I think so....wasn't he Shrub's AG in Tejas? nt

[Joanne98]

4. Wikipedia has it posted already!

Teen Sex Scandal
Alberto Gonzales, along with U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, have been accused of failing to take action to hundreds of serious complaints and investigations against dozens of staff members concerning allegations that teachers, administrators and guards had sex with minor male inmates incarcerated in Texas Youth Commision programs.<18>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales

[Erika]

7. Alberto Gonzales should have never been AG

Why wasn't all this dug up for his hearings?

[sasquatch]

3. Jesus this is sick

[Exultant Democracy]

5. Booshes Texas...

[valerief]

6. I still want to know more about Poppy's 1988 midnight call boy romp in

the White House. I guess there was a big congressional crowd there that night.