Boy Scouts of America Alamo Area Council ex-employee arrested on child pornography charges, records show

SAN ANTONIO – A erstwhile worker of Boy Scouts of America - Alamo Area Council is facing kid pornography charges aft being arrested past week, Bexar County tribunal records show.

Christopher Mendoza was arrested Dec. 9 and is charged with possession of kid pornography and possession with intent to beforehand kid pornography.

Alamo Area Council officials confirmed Tuesday that Mendoza held a presumption successful their outdoor programming department.

Officials accidental helium was terminated aft they recovered retired helium was arrested.

Mendoza had worked for the Alamo Area Council since 2014, holding assorted positions during his employment, officials said.

The assembly says it is not alert that immoderate of Mendoza’s actions progressive immoderate scouting children.

Michael De Los Santos, Scout Executive, and CEO of the Alamo Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, released the pursuing connection regarding Mendoza’s arrest.

“The actions alleged to person been committed by Christopher Mendoza are reprehensible and opposed to everything for which the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) stands. Upon learning of these allegations and his arrest, Mr. Mendoza’s employment with Alamo Area Council was terminated. We person added Mr. Mendoza to the BSA’s Volunteer Screening Database which volition forestall him from immoderate aboriginal information oregon engagement successful Scouting.”

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Santos said that the Boy Scouts of America has immoderate of the “strongest extortion policies’ of immoderate younker enactment successful the country.

“Our barriers to maltreatment see a thorough screening process for big leaders and employees, which see transgression inheritance checks; mandatory younker extortion grooming for each volunteers and employees; a enactment argumentation that requires astatine slightest 2 youth-protection trained adults beryllium contiguous with younker astatine each times during Scouting activities and bans immoderate one-on-one situations wherever adults would person immoderate enactment unsocial with children — either successful person, online, oregon via telephone oregon text; a prohibition connected the usage of signaling devices/cell phones adjacent bathrooms and ablution houses; and the punctual mandatory reporting of immoderate allegation oregon suspicion of maltreatment to instrumentality enforcement,” Santos said.

Mendoza was being held astatine the Bexar County Jail but has since been released connected bond, records show.

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