ABILENE, Texas – Now, both an Abilene school teacher and a headmaster are being accused of not telling anyone about claims that a teacher’s helper who is facing federal child pornography charges may have touched a child inappropriately.
Kelsey Alexander and Rebeca McMillon, both employees at St. John’s Episcopal School, have two warrants out for their arrest on misdemeanor charges of Failure to Make a Request Child Abuse Report. These charges are related to claims that Mark Eichorn, a preschool teacher’s aide at the school, has been involved in child pornography for a few months.
Court documents say that during the investigation, police wanted to “find out if there were any children at the school that Eichorn had access to that may have been potential victims.”
A school family came forward and said that their son had said that Eichorn had touched him inappropriately in January 2024.
According to the documents, this mother said she called Alexander, her son’s teacher, and Alexander told McMillon, the head of the school, about the claims.
Records show that McMillon called the parents after learning about the accusations, saying that she had done her own research and after seeing surveillance footage and talking to Eichorn, she came to the conclusion that the inappropriate touching happened by accident while Eichorn was helping the child with his belt so he could go to the bathroom.
Then, McMillon told the child’s parents that “nothing bad had happened” and that surveillance video showed the child skipping back into a game in front of Eichorn after what was said to have happened.
But the papers say that neither Alexander nor McMillon told the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services or any other police about the problem.
The papers say that McCMillion did not deny that she did not report, but she did say that she did her probe.
Alexander and McMillon are both needed reporters, which means they have to tell the right people about abuse claims within 48 hours of them being made.
Alexander and McMillon were arrested and freed from jail after putting up $8,000 bonds.
