{"id":259504,"date":"2026-04-21T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:24:11","slug":"parents-speak-out-after-hearing-tied-to-mathis-high-school-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259504\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents speak out after hearing tied to Mathis High School assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a recent similar case in San Patricio County, the parents say the situation highlights the importance of advocacy.<\/p>\n

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Two parents who asked to remain anonymous are speaking out after a closed hearing Monday at the San Patricio County Courthouse.<\/p>\n

The hearing involved another teen believed to be connected to a case <\/a>in which their son was allegedly restrained on the Mathis High School campus last year.<\/p>\n

The parents said they are devastated by what happened but were pleased with the outcome of the hearing.<\/p>\n


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\u201cThe aggressor cannot be on campus, not have to see these students who did what they did to him. Unfortunately, the school district did not act, and so we had to bring this to court,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

With a recent similar case in San Patricio County, the parents say the situation highlights the importance of advocacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case actually occurred before the Odem case. However, Odem ISD took action before Mathis ISD took action, which was very disappointing,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

The parents say the situation goes beyond district accountability and serves as a warning for other families.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeak to the kids around your children, too, because our child\u2014we would speak to him every day, but he was scared to tell us. Look for signs. Look for signs as to when things look different,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a recent similar case in San Patricio County, the parents say the situation highlights the importance of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-259504","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\/259504","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=259504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}