Overview

• A Parker County grand jury returned Class A misdemeanor charges against ex-Superintendent Edie Martin and paraprofessionals Jami Riggs, Jeannie Bottorff and Shannon Krause for missing the 48-hour reporting deadline
• The grand jury’s action follows a February video showing teacher Jennifer Dale striking a nonverbal autistic student and paraprofessional Paxton Bean throwing an object at him
• Bean faces separate injury to a child charges after a second indictment while Dale’s misdemeanor official oppression charge remains under review
• Indicted staff maintain they alerted district administrators promptly and preserved the video in line with federal privacy requirements
• The failure-to-report cases have been forwarded to the county clerk and will be assigned to misdemeanor courts for prosecution by the county attorney’s office