- John Paul Hernandez
The former principal of a West Texas juvenile prison testified Thursday that five male inmates who accuse him of sexual abuse made up the allegations in a possible attempt to get released from the facility.
John Paul Hernandez, 45, is on trial for 11 counts of abusing the inmates, including sexual assault. Hernandez’s former assistant at the West Texas State School in Pyote, Ray Brookins, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on similar charges last year. The abuse scandal led to an overhaul of the Texas Youth Commission.
Hernandez and Brookins allegedly gave the young male inmates candy and promised them birthday cake in exchange for abusing them. In some cases, the inmates were threatened with retaliation if they didn’t go along. Hernandez and Brookins would summon the inmates from their dorms late at night and take them to ball fields and darkened classrooms to carry out the abuse, according to a 2005 report by the Texas Rangers.
When authorities searched Brookins’ state-owned house at the school, they found a 16-year-old living there along with hundreds of pornographic videos, magazines and various sex toys.
All five of the inmates testified against Hernandez this week during his trial. Prosecutors are continuing their cross-examination of Hernandez today.
If the allegations are true,I hope they put him UNDER the jail.THIS is who we should be going after,not law abiding people who love one another…
The headline for this article is the most offensive one ever printed in the Voice. The current lowbrow, ultraconservative and narrow minded bias found in the online version of the voice is disturbing.
@Voice: This ain’t the online version of the Voice. It’s Instant Tea! Besides, that’s literally what this guy is accused of doing.
Update: The headmaster of the TYC-Pyote was acquitted. Jurors believed he was guilty but an ex-cop took over the deliberations and would not budge. This verdict has opened the doors wide open to more rampant sexual abuse at Texas Juvenile Prisons. Pedophiles on the payroll at TYC. The scumbag, his lawyer and the ex-cop should get a taste of what they were dishing out at the Pyote Youth Prison!!
If you are offended by the headline (I think it’s appropriate cuz it’s the truth), you should have heard the testimony. John Paul Hernandez is nothing but a perverted monster.