re: Covington Elementary Principal / Assistant Principal Arrested

My point is that you would expect parents of successful, involved students to likely be satisfied with the school overall.

It is still very unclear what they did. We need more facts to determine level of fault.

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I believe these 2 teachers were put in a bad situation and may have handled it poorly out of fear. These 2 people are not criminals and probably dont deserve this

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As another person said, mandatory reporting is really a no win situation. A few years ago, a kid came to school, met with the AP, and told him that his father beat him. Kid showed the AP some marks on his body. AP was forced to report it to DCFS.

Turns out the kid was just mad because his parents weren’t letting him do whatever he wanted. DCFS visited the home, and the parents were pissed, but they directed all their anger toward the school and the AP who made the report (mandatory) specifically.

It was actually a good family who was extremely embarrassed about being reported for what they considered disciplining their child and vented on the school.

I’ve read negative things about that school. But, yes. With all of the building, they’ve ruined the schools. Private will make bank in the future. Congratulations, I guess.

I was public school admin for 15 years. We followed the law and called DCFS multiple times as mandatory reporters and nothing ever happened to the guilty parties. At that time, it was all a dog and pony show when calling DCFS.

I was a hs admin years ago. Had a student make an outcry as school was letting out for the day. She was going to go “take one from the stepdad” so he would leave her sister alone. Called child protective services and sat at the campus until after 9pm. CPS was more worried about having a family member come get the girls so that she could go home. It seemed more of a paycheck than a “calling” to help kids. At any rate a family member shows up and begins berating the young girl for sharing family business with the school. Even as shitty as the CPS investigator was if we wouldn’t have reported it they would have crucified us as administrators.

That’s oddly specific

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Word on the street is a special needs student was roughed up by a teacher and they didnt report it.

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Who here hasn’t played smack-a-tard in their day?

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I believe these 2 teachers were put in a bad situation and may have handled it poorly out of fear. These 2 people are not criminals and probably dont deserve this

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Innocent until proven guilty.


But if they broke laws they are criminals. That's how it works.

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Just a report that they were investigated by Covington Police and were arrested for failing to report as required by law.

I won't have a opinion one way or another until more info is released.

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UPDATE: One of the school board members posted the police report on social media, and it's pretty fricking bad.

Here are some quotes:

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Investigation Initiation On April 29, 2026, at approximately 1026 hours, Detective Brian Brown of the Covington Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, was contacted by Lieutenant Edwin Masters and advised to meet with the School Resource Officer (SRO) at E. E. Lyon Elementary School. Detective Brown drove to the school and met SRO Janel Walters. SRO Walters explained that there had been an incident in the school involving two boys: a 9-year-old, MINOR 1 (W/M, D.O.B. REDACTED), and an 8-year-old, MINOR 2 (W/M, D.O.B. REDACTED). The boys had been in a bathroom together, and after exiting, MINOR 1 disclosed that MINOR 2 had him perform oral sex on him.

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SRO Walters stated that she had learned of this incident that day and had called her supervisor, Sergeant Bart Ownby. SRO Walters stated she was upset because the incident had occurred the day before (April 28, 2026) and she was not advised about it until a counselor told staff it needed to be reported. It was later determined that the school’s Mental Health Provider (MHP) Robbee Lewis was the one who told staff the incident needed to be reported. SRO Walters stated that the two boys had been in the bathroom and that oral sex had occurred. REDACTED (MINOR 1’s mother), was in the hallway with her son. SRO Walters advised Detective Brown that one of the juveniles had been interviewed by counselor Linda Garon. Detective Brown asked SRO Walters to have REDACTED (MINOR 1’s mother) step into her office once Principal Faciane exited the room.

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Principal Lauryn Faciane came into the SRO office and Detective Brown spoke with her; SRO Walters was present. Mrs. Faciane stated that she had been told by a counselor that the incident had occurred. Detective Brown asked whether she had reported the incident to DCFS, and she stated that she had not. Mrs. Faciane confirmed the incident had occurred on April 28, 2026. She stated that she called her administration, advised them of the incident, and was directed to contact the family and let them know an incident had occurred. Detective Brown explained to Mrs. Faciane that she is a mandated reporter and that counselors are not supposed to be interviewing children regarding sexual abuse. Detective Brown explained that Detective Brown, along with others, had presented the mandated reporter training which she attended. While at the school, Detective Brown learned from SRO Walters of another incident in December of 2025 involving MINOR 2. That incident was never reported to law enforcement or DCFS. It was learned that the administration did not tell the SRO, and she found out weeks later through rumors at the school.

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Former School board member candidate Kathleen Cannino has direct links to the PDF reports on her Facebook page if you want to see them. KC Facebook Page

The gist is that these two administrators were advised, formally or otherwise, by STPSB Administration to not report these events to DCFS or law enforcement and keep the investigations in-house. The two admins have a close relationship with "Frankie", who is STPSB Superintendant Frank Jabbia, and he's trying to cover his arse and blame the school resource officer for not doing her job, when there is zero evidence that she received any formal reports from anyone at the school. There's a record of an STPSB staffer saying that these little kids were just "curious" and she said something along the lines of "are we supposed to report every little thing to law enforcement?"

It's all pretty horrifying.