{"id":62588,"date":"2025-11-24T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62588\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:16:22","slug":"san-antonio-pediatrician-arrested-in-child-sexual-assault-case-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62588\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio pediatrician arrested in child sexual assault case, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation is underway after a child made outcries accusing his pediatrician of sexual assault. San Antonio police have taken the doctor into custody in connection with the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, SAPD booked 50-year-old Gabriel Perez for aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to a preliminary report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the assault happened in July 2022 at the 9700 block of Culebra during the boy&#8217;s annual checkup. The child was between 5 and 6 years old at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the report, Perez asked the boy&#8217;s mother to leave the exam room. After she stepped out, he allegedly assaulted the child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives investigated the allegation and determined they had enough evidence to make an arrest. Perez was taken into custody at his home without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police did not release the name of the medical practice where Perez worked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe there may be additional victims. Anyone with information is urged to contact SAPD&#8217;s Special Victims Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/san-antonio-pediatrician-arrested-21202513.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Antonio pediatrician arrested in child sexual assault case, police say;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Antonio pediatrician arrested in child sexual assault case, police say<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a child made outcries accusing his pediatrician of sexual assault. San Antonio police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32884,32491,32885,82,84,83,632,4031],"class_list":["post-62588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-gabriel-perez","tag-pediatrician","tag-preliminary-report","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sapd","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62588","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=62588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}