The former superintendent was arrested in March 2025 after a video surfaced showing educators allegedly abusing an autistic child in a classroom.
MILLSAP, Texas — Former Millsap ISD Superintendent Edie Martin and three other educators have been indicted by a Parker County grand jury for failure to report child abuse by a professional.
The indictments stem from a video that surfaced in March 2025, allegedly showing two educators, Paxton Bean and Jennifer Dale, abusing an autistic child in a classroom.
Martin, Dale and Bean were arrested in March. Martin was initially charged with a felony count of failure to report or intent to conceal. Bean was charged with injury to a child/elderly/disabled and official oppression, and Dale was charged with official oppression. Nearly four months after her arrest, Martin has now been indicted on a Class A misdemeanor.
According to Parker County District Attorney Jeff Swain, educators Jami Riggs, Jeannie Bottorff and Shannon Krause were also indicted by the grand jury for failure to report child abuse by a professional.
“Riggs, Bottorff, and Krause were all paraprofessionals who worked in the MISD special needs classroom where the abuse, both depicted on the widely circulated video and otherwise, is alleged to have taken place,” Swain said in a news release. “The cases on all four educators were transferred to the County Clerk’s Office where they will be randomly assigned to one of our two misdemeanor courts.”
Swain added that both Bean and Dale are also facing misdemeanor official oppression charges and said those cases are being reviewed by the county’s attorney’s office.
The former superintendents’ attorneys released the following remarks:
“Upon being informed of the allegations, Dr. Martin acted immediately. She placed an Assistant Principal in that special education classroom for the remainder of that day to observe the class. The two educators involved were ordered onto administrative leave and never returned to a Millsap classroom since that order by Dr. Martin made that very day.”
“Some tried to argue that Dr. Martin asking the whistleblower to remove the video from that personal cell phone was an attempt to conceal. The Grand Jury was given the actual proof that Dr. Martin had already preserved a copy of that video for the district and that she was acting in accordance with federal education privacy laws. Those federal laws prohibit school employees from maintaining such private school information in their personal possession. Removing those videos from the cell phone was what she was required by law to be done to comply with the federal law. Nothing was concealed. To the contrary, it was properly preserved.”
“Again, it is our position that Edie Martin is a dedicated administrator and educator. She has been an advocate for children during her entire career for over 30 years. We look forward to defending this misdemeanor matter at trial.”