largest in-patient medical center in the Department of Defense<\/a>. It employs about 8,500 active-duty and civilian staff members and serves as a training ground for the Army and Air Force.<\/p>\nBAMC is the only military hospital with a Level I Trauma Center, a designation for hospitals that treat the most severe and complex injuries, including gunshot wounds and trauma from major car crashes. In the early 2000s, it became a hub for treating soldiers wounded in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n
‘Extremely serious’<\/p>\n
Police are still working to determine the full list of hospitals where\u00a0Skaggs\u00a0worked.<\/p>\n
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Travel nurses work for staffing agencies that help hospitals and clinics fill both temporary and permanent positions, meaning they can be sent to different facilities across the state or the country to alleviate nursing shortages or assist after major disasters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah Richards, 41, of Northeast San Antonio, told the Express-News that Skaggs was one of her nurses in the Intensive Care Unit at Northeast Baptist Hospital when she was treated there for complications of diabetes about three years ago.<\/p>\n
Richards described feeling uncomfortable around Skaggs, who she said repeatedly offered to help her change her clothes even after she declined his assistance. When Skaggs wheeled her out of the hospital at the end of her stay to be picked up by her husband, the nurse spelled out his last name and told her she could look him up online, she said, adding that she considered the remark odd and inappropriate.<\/p>\n
Northeast Baptist did not respond\u00a0to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
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Skaggs became a licensed practical nurse in 2016 and a registered nurse in 2020, according to Texas Board of Nursing records. Both licenses were reissued in May and are valid through May 31, 2028.<\/p>\n
The nursing board said it was aware of the sexual assault allegations against\u00a0Skaggs and that, if proven, they would constitute \u201cextremely serious violations of the Nursing Practice Act and Board rules.” The board said it cooperates with law enforcement but was prohibited from releasing information about specific complaints or investigations.<\/p>\n
‘An intrusive thought’<\/p>\n
Skaggs’ wife reported him to Universal City police on the evening of Sept. 7\u00a0 and told detectives he had confessed to the alleged sexual assaults during an early morning phone call, court records show. She said she and her husband were “in the process of separating.”<\/p>\n
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She called police a second time the same night to report that\u00a0Skaggs had called her and told her he wanted to turn himself in.<\/p>\n
Officers brought Skaggs to the Universal City Police Department, where he agreed to an interview and allegedly detailed the sexual contact with his son. He said he believed it happened in January 2025, when his son was 6 months old, court records show.<\/p>\n
Skaggs said he and the baby were sleeping in a rocking chair when the boy woke up and began crawling and kicking. He said he had “an intrusive thought” and pulled down his shorts, exposing his erect penis and “briefly” guiding the child’s hand to it. Skaggs said he was “curious to see if it would be good or arousing,” a detective wrote in an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
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He was booked into the\u00a0Bexar County jail, where he remained Friday afternoon. His bail was set at $125,000. Court records do not list an attorney for him.<\/p>\n
A representative for Skaggs’ family said they would have no comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Daniel Skaggs, 32, is charged with indecency with a child. Universal City police are investigating claims that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-433953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433953","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=433953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}