SAN ANTONIO — A man who has been jailed for an entire year, accused of exposing himself to children on a school bus several times may soon learn his fate. Sergio Calderon, 37, is facing one count of indecent exposure involving a child.
Police said Calderon was arrested last May near Bulverde and Evans as he was attempting to expose himself to children on a North East ISD school bus.
At the time, the principal of Tex Hill Middle School sent a letter home to parents explaining what happened and praising students for their bravery. Charles Reininger, Jr. explained that, for two days, students saw a man driving near their bus exposing himself.
One of those students recorded the second incident on their cell phone, which helped investigators make an arrest.
"This kind of thing is very important for kids," Reininger said at the time. "What they did impacts more than just their school, so it's very important that they did what they did the way they did it."
"They're heroes as far as I'm concerned," parent volunteer Kelly Gunn said at the time of the incident.
Gunn said she's proud of the entire school community, but especially of middle school kids who face so many challenges.
"You're still finding yourself. You don't know what you want to be or who you're going to be. So to have that instilled in you that you're safe and you can come and talk to them? That's amazing to have," Gunn said.
The principal said school police immediately reached out to SAPD after the student outcry, and the two agencies set about finding the man
While they were conducting surveillance, they said they caught the same man following the bus again. Calderon was arrested.
A search of online Bexar County court records indicate Calderon has been arrested twice before on indecent exposure charges, once in 2019 and once in 2020.
An arrest affidavit related to the 2020 case indicates Calderon followed a woman who was using a vacuum at a car wash before pulling up near her vehicle and exposing himself. The court record indicates the act was caught on surveillance video.
Online records indicate the first case resulted in a term of deferred adjudication. The second case indicates Calderon pled guilty, applied for and was granted probation for a term that ended on May 17, 2022. Calderon was arrested just three days later in connection with the school bus incident.
Calderon was due in 290th District Court last week, but a spokesman said they are waiting on the results of an evaluation before proceeding with the case.