{"id":348166,"date":"2026-06-24T06:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:43:17","slug":"houston-police-officer-indicted-on-sexual-assault-of-a-child-under-14-court-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348166\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police officer indicted on sexual assault of a child under 14, court records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A Houston Police officer has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 14 years old, court records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officer, Pablo Diaz-Buscio, was indicted on Monday, according to documents obtained by ABC13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Records show he&#8217;s been an officer for three years. Diaz graduated from the Houston Police Academy in 2023 as part of Cadet Class 260. The Houston Police Department confirmed he&#8217;s now relieved of duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to court records, a child under 14 complained in October 2025 that Diaz sexually assaulted her. Since then, Diaz&#8217;s attorney said the officer has been on leave and cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Court records show Officer Diaz is accused of forcing a child under 14 to come in contact with his sexual organs. It is a charge he vehemently denies through his attorney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The case was investigated by the Precinct 4 Constable&#8217;s Office, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Once the indictment was handed down, Diaz turned himself in at the 497th District Court. He was issued a bond and is now released, records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Diaz&#8217;s attorney said they are looking forward to their day in court.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A Houston Police officer has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124217,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-348166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-124217","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348166","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=348166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}