SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio detention officer is facing serious charges after a monthslong investigation uncovered a disturbing pattern of abuse involving a 13-year-old disabled girl. <\/p>\n
Richard Matthew Rey Mendoza, 22, was arrested following a digital trail that spanned social media posts, secret messages, and even a slip-up involving a medical lab report. Sources say that Mendoza is a San Antonio Police Department civilian employee assigned to their detention center. <\/p>\n
According to the arrest report, the case broke wide open in September 2025 when an anonymous tipster reached out to Crime Stoppers, reporting that a young girl was posting explicit content on X (formerly Twitter) and pointed investigators toward another account, belonging to Mendoza, that appeared to show videos of the two together. Investigators identified the victim after she posted a “selfie” wearing a medical wristband that displayed her personal identifiers.<\/p>\n
The evidence was graphic. In one post, Mendoza allegedly bragged about the encounters. Detectives were able to connect the dots when they noticed Mendoza had posted a photo of a medical report from a local urgent care. Even though he tried to black out his name, investigators traced the records back to him, confirming his identity.<\/p>\n
Investigators were also able to definitively link Mendoza to the explicit online videos using his own physical identifiers. While his X (formerly Twitter) accounts featured selfies and profile pictures that matched his official Texas Driver\u2019s License photo, it was his unique body art that provided the most damning evidence. Detectives noted that the same distinct tattoos visible in his casual photos were clearly captured in the sexually explicit footage he recorded, not only with the 13-year-old victim but with several other women as well.<\/p>\n
When detectives first visited the girl’s home, she denied everything. However, her mother, who had been worried about her daughter\u2019s secret social media use, handed over the girl\u2019s phone to the FBI for a forensic sweep.<\/p>\n
What they found was a history of deleted messages where Mendoza reportedly asked the girl when her mother was leaving and talked about “using” her. Even after the police got involved, the two didn’t stop; the mother later caught her daughter with a second secret phone, still messaging Mendoza.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the victim finally came forward with the full story. She told investigators that Mendoza would pick her up in his black four-door car while she was skipping school. From there, he allegedly took her to his apartment or to the back of local businesses.<\/p>\n
According to the arrest report, the victim told investigators Mendoza knew her age and that the abuse occurred at least four or five times between August and November 2025. Investigators also say digital evidence included messages in which the suspect allegedly asked about the girl\u2019s whereabouts and made sexual references. <\/p>\n
Mendoza is now facing a charge of continuous sexual abuse of disabled child under 14 and possession of child pornography. Because the abuse happened over a period of several months, the charge falls under a specific section of the Texas Penal Code designed to punish repeated offenses against minors. He remains under investigation as the San Antonio Police continue to look into the case as a matter of child trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio detention officer is facing serious charges after a monthslong investigation uncovered a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":777753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-777752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}