{"id":273449,"date":"2026-04-30T20:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273449\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:38:24","slug":"two-more-juveniles-charged-in-odem-edroy-isd-school-bus-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273449\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more juveniles charged in Odem-Edroy ISD school bus assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Patricio County Sheriff\u2019s officials confirm new charges tied to December incident involving student on bus returning from Hebbronville game.<\/p>\n<p>ODEM, Texas \u2014 San Patricio County Sheriff\u2019s officials confirmed Thursday that two more juveniles have been charged with indecency with a child in connection with a December school bus assault involving an Odem-Edroy ISD student.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/odem-isd-student-charged-after-reported-assault-district-bus\/503-647ecb13-f969-44cc-9dbb-a8ed62058e1f\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Odem ISD student charged for abuse on school bus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The case involves an alleged assault on a juvenile aboard a school bus returning from a basketball game in Hebbronville.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the two juveniles face indecency with a child charges, with one classified as a second-degree felony and the other as a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p>It follows the arrest of 18-year-old Odem-Edroy ISD student Christopher Jacob Soto, who was previously taken into custody in the same investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the San Patricio County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the incident occurred Dec. 9 as students traveled back to Odem.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were notified on Dec. 12. Investigators conducted a forensic interview with the juvenile victim and gathered evidence as part of the case.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was released.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Patricio County Sheriff\u2019s officials confirm new charges tied to December incident involving student on bus returning from&hellip;\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-273449","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\/273449","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=273449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273449\/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=273449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}