Second Steele High School teacher charged with inappropriately touching student

By Taylor Pettaway, mySA.com / San Antonio Express-News

Updated 1:56 pm CDT, Wednesday, March 25, 2020

A Cibolo high school teacher has been arrested after reports of inappropriate contact with a student, the Cibolo Police Department said Wednesday.

Eric Paul Contreras, a teacher at Bryon P. Steele II High School, was arrested Tuesday night after he turned himself into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center.

The department did not release much information but said multiple conversations revealed Contreras, 43, had inappropriate contact with a juvenile student, said officer Matt Schima, a spokesman with the police department.

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“The safety of our community and especially that of our students is our priority,” the department wrote in a news release. “The Shertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District is fully cooperating with the investigation and remains a vital partner in the safety of our students and community.”

This arrest comes less than a month after another teacher at Steele High School was arrested March 7 on charges of indecency with a child-sexual contact. That teacher, 63-year-old Alfred Villarreal, was allegedly seen on surveillance footage inappropriately touching a student, according to an arrest affidavit.

Contreras was charged with indecency with a child, and his bail was set at $50,000.