Officials: Inmate used prison iPad for explicit contact with minors

Bexar County Sheriff’s Office officials say they have filed additional criminal charges against an inmate accused of having sexually explicit online conversations with minors while he was incarcerated in a San Antonio facility.

An investigation by Texas Child Protective Services found that Bishoy Mina Elkhaliny, 36, was using a prison-issued iPad to communicate with a 12-year-old and a 15-year-old girl, even though he was in custody at Fabian Dale Dominguez State Jail, Sheriff Javier Salazar said.

The facility, which is on the West Side of San Antonio, allows inmates to talk with people online through an iPad, Salazar said.

Mina Elkhaliny was moved to Dominguez State Jail in May after he was sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted of multiple charges in Nueces County. He was charged with unlawful restraint, serious bodily injury, two counts of assault and providing a false statement.

Mina Elkhaliny has been charged with online solicitation of a minor under 14 years old, a second-degree felony, in connection with the CPS investigation.

CPS investigators found Mina Elkhaliny having inappropriate conversations with the two minors, including asking them for sexually explicit photographs, Salazar said Friday.

“It appears that he may be grooming them for possible sexual activity later, after he gets out of jail,” Salazar said.

Investigators also found Mina Elkhaliny was communicating with three other minors in Tarrant County and Dallas County, Salazar said. He said the Bexar County Sheriff ’s Office also will investigate those cases.

Salazar said the investigation into Mina Elkhaliny also resulted in charges being filed against his wife, Mariam Said Elkhaliny.

Investigators learned that Said Elkhaliny was married not only to Mina Elkhaliny, but also to another person, Salazar said. She was arrested on a charge of bigamy, which is a third-degree felony. Bigamy is when someone who is legally married also marries another person.

“(This was) certainly a twisted case, with a whole bunch of plot twists to it,” Salazar said.

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