Civil rights activists are calling for the trial of a former Texas Youth Commission principal.

John Paul Hernandez is accused of sexually assaulting teenage students at the West Texas State School in Pyote.

The Texas Civil Rights Project held a press conference in east Austin Wednesday, asking Hernandez to be tried immediately.

"The longer you wait for a case to come to trial, the harder it is to have an accurate and a fair trial, because people forget memories, lose track, sometimes people die, sometimes people move and there's no healing for the victim," Jim Harrington with the Texas Civil Rights Project said.

In April, a jury in Odessa sentenced another former TYC administrator at the West Texas facility to ten years in prison.

Texas Rangers began investigating abuse at the state school in 2005.

Hernandez is still awaiting a trial date.

A lengthy and detailed report states Hernandez summoned young male inmates from their dorms late at night to ball fields, darkened conference rooms and offices for sex for at least two years.