Brazos County prosecutors have dismissed a two-year-old case against a visiting international Spanish teacher accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old student at the charter school where he worked.
Jose Adrian Hernandez Grimaldo, 48, was hired in August 2022 by International Leadership of Texas, a public charter school. He entered the U.S. on a teaching visa.
The teacher was arrested in May 2024 and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony.
Hernandez Grimaldo had been detained in the Brazos County Jail on an immigration hold since his arrest but was released on June 25.
According to a report by KBTX, the Brazos County District Attorney’s Office decided to dismiss the case after prosecutors obtained new information that “negatively impacted our ability to move forward with trial.”
A May 20 jury trial had been reset to June with agreement from both parties.
The state’s motion to dismiss cited “insufficient evidence” to prove the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.
“While prosecutors have a strict ethical obligation to only proceed with a trial when the legally admissible evidence supports the charge, a dismissal does not diminish the reality of the trauma experienced,” DA Jarvis Parsons’ office stated. “We remain dedicated to standing with survivors throughout every stage of the legal process.”
Judge Kyle Hawthorne of the 85th District Court in Brazos County accepted the prosecution’s motion to dismiss on June 23.
Hernandez Grimaldo’s attorney, Shane Phelps, said the dismissal showed prosecutors did not have evidence of the crime.
“As we got closer to trial, it became more and more obvious that he just didn’t do this,” stated Phelps.
Hernandez Grimaldo was accused in 2024 of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old female student in a bathroom in early 2023. The girl told police the teacher had threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the attack.
At the time of the alleged assault, Hernandez Grimaldo taught at the IL Texas K-8 school in College Station.
In March 2023—after the alleged assault but before it was reported—IL Texas fired the teacher following a series of complaints and reprimands for touching students.
After he successfully appealed his firing, IL Texas transferred Hernandez Grimaldo in August 2023 to the school’s Lancaster K-8 campus, where he worked until his arrest in May 2024.
In October 2023, Hernandez Grimaldo was placed on leave after a parent reported the teacher for inappropriate sexual interactions with their then-6th grade student. The school said it was unable to substantiate the claims, and the teacher was reinstated in January 2024.
Hernandez Grimaldo’s visiting international teacher certification expired in August 2025.
He is among hundreds of Texas school employees accused of sex crimes involving students and other children in just the past few years. Very rarely are charges against them dropped.
Often cases take years to resolve; many end in negotiated plea deals because victims’ families want to spare their children from having to testify in court.
The Texas Education Agency’s Educator Misconduct Reporting Dashboard shows that the agency is currently investigating more than 2,400 sexual misconduct complaints and opening an average of 260 new cases each month.
Texas Scorecard maintains a map of known educator sexual misconduct arrests.
