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A Plano principal’s job is on the line after a teacher in her school was arrested and accused of sexually abusing multiple students.Plano ISD Child Sex Abuse InvestigationThe Plano Independent School District placed Brinker Elementary School Principal Jennifer King on leave last month. She has been the school's principal since 2024.A lawsuit accuses her of failing to report allegations against former second grade teacher Paul Campbell. The suit states King received at least one report of Campbell touching a student inappropriately but she did not investigate, did not tell law enforcement, and did not report anything to the Texas Education Agency.Campbell is currently in the Collin County jail charged with one count of sexual abuse of a child and three counts of indecency with a child.Although King is a defendant in the civil lawsuit, she is not facing any criminal charges.On Thursday night, school board members voted 7-0 to send a termination and non-renewel letter to King, beginning t
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A 37-year-old North Texas man was arrested on murder and abuse of a corpse charges after his wife was found dead in their Plano home.
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A North Texas woman was sentenced to life in prison after admitting she smothered her young niece with a pillow.A Tarrant County jury found Mercia Sneed guilty of capital murder and injury to a child causing serious bodily harm for the 2019 death of 9-year-old Melodi Sneed.She was then given two life sentences without the possibility of parole."Today is about Melodi," Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Charlie Boulware said during closing arguments. "Melodi's family has waited seven years, seven long years. We are asking for a swift verdict for Melodi's family and for Melodi."Mansfield police arrested Sneed after they found the 9-year-old unresponsive in her family’s new home on Eagle Drive on July 27, 2019. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital.According to prosecutors, the murder happened after all the other adults in the house had gone to bed and Melodi had fallen asleep on the couch in the game room. Sneed told her 13-year-old son to leave the room, and then she pre
