Several St. Tammany Parish School Board members were up for re-election for the Louisiana Open Primary.
This comes following the fallout of arrests linked to two former principals at Lyon Elementary stemming from failure to report child abuse.
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About the investigation:
This comes after WDSU obtained a court transcript through a public records request outlining a hearing where the two Northshore principals pleaded guilty to charges stemming from failure to report child abuse at Lyon Elementary.
Below is everything we know about the investigation.
Court transcript outlines principals’ sentencing hearing:
According to the court transcript, Judge Ellen Creel heard the facts of the case involving the principals, which were read in open court.
Creel was briefed on the two child abuse incidents Faciane was involved in, as well as the one instance Barth failed to report.
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Failure to report accusations outlined in police report:
The law requires school administrators to promptly report suspected abuse, neglect and other incidents involving children to authorities.
According to the police report, Faciane failed to report a case of physical abuse to a special needs child in 2024. In this instance, the parent had photographic documentation of the abuse and the person accused in the case pleaded guilty to charges that same year.
In two other instances, Barth and Faciane failed to report sexual abuse involving children.
According to the police report, one incident took place between a girl and a boy in December 2025 and was never reported. In this incident, it was never reported to law enforcement or DCFS, and police were told that an internal investigation was conducted. This was the incident Barth was charged in connection with.
WDSU Northshore Bureau Reporter Shantel Davis breaks down the court transcripts:
One of the children involved in that incident, a boy described as between the ages of 8 and 9, was also involved in the second incident that took place in April 2026.
In the April 28 incident, a boy reported that he was sexually abused by the other boy in the bathroom of the school, according to the police report.
The report said a counselor and Faciane were made aware of the abuse the day of the incident. The day after, the school resource officer was made aware.
When the school’s Mental Health Provider was informed, they told the staff the incident needed to be reported.
A detective later spoke with Faciane about the incident, and she told the detective that she and the counselor were aware of it and called the school district. Faciane told the detective that the district instructed her to contact the family of the boys, according to the police report.
The report states that only one of the parents was notified of the abuse. The second parent told police they found out about the abuse from their child.
The detective also spoke with the counselor, who confirmed she did not report the incident.
Due to the children’s ages, they cannot face charges in connection with the sexual abuse.
Court transcripts outline judge’s critical response to failure to report incidents:
The report also alleges other concerning incidents that happened at the school that were not reported by additional administrators. Those administrators were not charged in the case, according to the report.
Those incidents include a child leaving a classroom, a student possessing a knife in the cafeteria, a student possessing bullets, allegations of missing PTA funds, and another student striking a female student on the buttocks.
Judge reacts to text messages:
While Creel was briefed on these facts in court, she asked for clarifications on text messages between Faciane and other school administrators.
The court transcript read:
First Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Authement: They did know that this was being looked at, Judge. And I can just articulate some of these text messages for the record. So on Ms. Faciane’s phone, in communicating with other members of the administration, she received a text message that stated: “Yeah, everyone is spiraling about what this means for them. Basically, report everything, which is ridiculous. But if they want it to be this way, if they want to be this way about it, then okay.” And then another message received: “I’m sorry, not for what this means for them, but what this means for us. Like everyone in general. Frankie” — who this is a reference to Mr. Jabbia — “said so many times this could happen to anybody at any time.”
Judge Creel: This could happen to anybody at any time, was that concern for it could happen to any, this kind of thing could happen to any children at any time?
First Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Authement: No, that it could happen to anybody, like the administrators, teachers, individuals who are failing to report that children are having or engaging in sexual conduct in the bathroom
Another text message read:
“He wants to protect us at all costs, but what do you do when they come to you with that? … He knows we work our a—– off, and this is an area child on child that we are not necessarily reporting.”
Authement said this was acknowledgement within the schools that child-on-child abuse was not being reported as mandated by the statute, according to the court transcript.
Roy Burns, the defense attorney who represented Barth and Faciane, told Creel that there was enough evidence against the principals to warrant the misdemeanor guilty pleas.
Creel voiced strong disappointment in the charge, but agreed to follow the law as well as the victim’s family’s wishes when she gave them their sentences.
Creel then referenced the statute the principals violated, and read it to them out loud.
“There seems to be no concern at all for children here from what I’m hearing. So I’m going to read it to you, because God knows somebody needs to,” Creel said. “It’s only a misdemeanor, which is remarkable to me. It says: Any person who pursuant to Children’s Code Article 609 (A) is required to report the abuse or neglect of a child. And I guarantee you, a principal and an assistant principal, are on that list. The buck stops with you people.”
Creel continued to stress her disappointment in Barth and Faciane, going as far as calling their actions disgusting, and ordering them to be removed from her court.
“I am a child of a teacher. This is, I can’t even explain to you how offensive this is to me. That is an honorable profession, or it was, and it still is to the vast majority of the ones that are in the trenches. You have dishonored the profession, and you have let children down and this community. It’s egregious behavior. Let me tell you why it’s egregious. The selfishness in the text messages. There was zero concern exhibited for children, zero. What this means for us. This could happen to anybody like me at any time. Zero concern for the children. Only concern for yourself. That is it. It’s disgusting,” Creel said, according to the court transcript.
Creel referenced Barth and Faciane’s mandatory reporting training, and called their disregard of that training “egregious behavior.”
“The blame shifting that went on, trying to throw somebody else under the bus. Did you try to throw your School Resources Officer under the bus? Is that what you did by knowing what happened, and not telling them what happened, and then just telling them watch the video, when you know a video can’t see inside a bathroom stall? Unbelievable,” Creel said, according to the court transcripts.
Creel accepted their pleas, giving both two years of probation and a $500 fine, stating she only agreed because of the extent of what the law allowed and the victim’s family’s wishes.
“It appears to be systemic if this is going on, and it’s disgusting. The attitude that you all displayed in the text messages calling this ridiculous shows absolutely no concern and no remorse. Absolutely egregious. I’m done. And you need to get them out of my courtroom,” Creel said, according to the court transcript.
