Overview
- Wendy Bailey, the former principal at Crosby Elementary, was arrested on charges of endangering a child and failure to report and has posted bond while the case remains pending and Forney ISD says it is cooperating with investigators.
- An arrest affidavit alleges Bailey knew the teacher had a prior 2015 arrest while working in Garland under the name Michael Roell and that she encouraged or conditioned hiring after he legally changed his name to Jonathan Michael.
- Investigators say two teacher’s aides reported in April that the teacher inappropriately touched a nonverbal special‑needs student and made explicit comments, and that Bailey moved the student and one aide to another classroom instead of reporting the allegations to Child Protective Services or district officials.
- The teacher, Jonathan Michael, was arrested in May by the Texas Rangers and faces two counts of injury to a child and one count of child grooming and is accused in the affidavit of other physical incidents including pushing a student into a bookshelf and pinning a student to the floor.
- The prosecutions and investigations are active and highlight questions about background checks, inter‑district sharing of personnel concerns, and enforcement of mandatory‑reporting duties while both defendants remain presumed innocent pending trial.