Former TYC Administrator Goes to Trial on Sex Charges

ODESSA, Texas (AP) _ More than three years after allegations of rampant sexual abuse of teenage inmates upended the Texas Youth Commission, one of two former jail administrators accused in the case is set to stand trial.

Ray Brookins is a former assistant superintendent at the commission’s West Texas State School in Pyote. He was indicted in 2007 and will go before a jury Monday in an Odessa courtroom.

His lawyer has repeatedly declined to discuss the case and did not return a call seeking comment Friday.

Sex abuse allegations against Brookins and former principal John Paul Hernandez were first investigated by the Texas Rangers in 2005.

A lengthy and detailed report said Brookins and Hernandez summoned young male inmates from their dorms late at night to ball fields, darkened conference rooms and offices for sex for at least two years.

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