\u00a0indicted in connection with a reported sexual assault of a student on a school bus<\/a>, according to the San Patricio County District Attorney.<\/p>\nDistrict Attorney Margie Silva confirmed to 3NEWS on Thursday that all three coaches have been charged with two counts of abandoning and endangering a child, a state jail felony.<\/p>\n
According to the indictments, the coaches are accused of failing to protect a student from sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
The coaches have been identified by court documents as Nathan Wuenschel, Cristian Torres, and Arnold Maldonado.<\/p>\n
According to San Patricio County Sheriff Oscar Rivera, a juvenile student was assaulted in December 2025 while students were traveling back to Odem from a basketball game in Hebbronville.<\/p>\n
The indictments follow a months-long investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n
The alleged assailant, Christopher Jacob Soto, 19, was arrested in early January and charged with indecency with a child in connection with the assault, a second-degree felony. A magistrate set Soto\u2019s bond at $75,000. He was bonded out by his attorney Frank Gonzales, according to Rivera.<\/p>\n
In early January, Odem-Edroy ISD terminated one coach and placed the other two on paid administrative leave while conducting its own internal investigation.<\/p>\n
In late January, the school board voted to terminate the other two coaches tied to the incident. The decision was not unanimous.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Yolanda Carr previously said the district aimed to remain as transparent as possible during the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Odem ISD coaches have been charged with abandoning and endangering a child, months after a student was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-232579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}