Charges against couple accused in foster child sex case dropped

Charges against the couple accused of sexually assaulting two foster children in their care have been dropped, court documents show.

“After careful review of the entire case, the case was dismissed because there was not enough evidence to proceed,” the El Paso County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

Sandra Huerta was charged by El Paso Police with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child and Indecency with a Child in two separate cases. Her husband, Antonio Huerta, also faced similar charges. All charges were dropped due to “prosecutorial discretion,” a motion to dismiss states.

The alleged accusers, now young adults, claimed the Huertas sexually abused them when they were seven and eleven years old.

At the time of the allegations in late 2015, Paul Zimmerman, spokesman with Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, told ABC-7 the couple had not been foster parents since September 2014, “when foster children were removed from their home.”

Zimmerman told ABC-7 the Huertas housed 36 foster children from 2000 through September 2014.