Ex-HISD employee on the run after accusations of impregnanting 13-year-old student

Mauricio Mendoza, 37, has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a student at a Houston middle school. Mauricio Mendoza, 37, has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a student at a Houston middle school. Photo: handout Photo: handout Image 1 of / 98 Caption Close Ex-HISD employee on the run after accusations of impregnanting 13-year-old student 1 / 98 Back to Gallery

A former Houston Independent School District employee is on the run, after being accused of impregnating a 13-year-old student.

Mauricio Orlando Mendoza, 37, was arrested and charged in March for aggravated sexual assault of a child.

He had been out on a $50,000 bail since March 23, but his bail was revoked March 31 because he was not living at the address he said he would be or not living with the person he said he would be with, according to court documents.

Mendoza has been at-large since. A spokeswoman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office confirmed Thursday that there is an open warrant out on Mendoza.

Mendoza's bond said he would live with his wife at their Houston residence. But within weeks, Mendoza's wife also no longer lived at the location provided to the court and said she did not know Mendoza's whereabouts, according to court documents.

State District Judge Hazel Jones confiscated Mendoza's passport after she heard the allegations against him. Mendoza has lived in the United States with his wife and children for about five years. He is originally from El Salvador, prosecutors said.

Mendoza was an information technology worker in Houston ISD before his arrest on March 22. He is accused of having had sex with the 13-year-old girl in his office and the library at Hartman Middle School. The girl tested positively in a pregnancy test in March.

He was arrested after the girl's mother said she found illicit text messages between her daughter and Mendoza in December.

He faced the possibility of life in prison.

Brian Rogers and Brooke Lewis contributed to this report.