LONGVIEW, Texas — A former principal and assistant principal at J.L. Everhart Elementary in Longview ISD face new charges in relation to allegations they abused special education students.
Cassandra Renee James, 49, former principal at J.L. Everhart, and Linda Kaye Brown Lister, 62, former assistant principal at the campus, were each indicted on a single charge of endangering a child in 2022.
The indictments against them appeared to involve the same child, listed by the initials "J.G." who was younger than 15. Each charge appears to be related to the same incident on Sept. 7, 2021, when the indictments accuse each woman of placing the child “in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, and physical and mental impairment by swinging a paddle toward and near the head of J.G. and the defendant did not voluntarily deliver J.G. to a designated emergency infant care provider” as required by state law.
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