{"id":365863,"date":"2026-07-08T21:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365863\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:25:35","slug":"plano-elementary-teacher-arrested-on-child-sex-abuse-charge-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365863\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano elementary teacher arrested on child sex abuse charge, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elementary school teacher for the Plano Independent School District has been arrested on a charge of continuous abuse of a child, according to a statement from the district.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/paul-campbel.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"paul campbell \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Plano Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Plano police said they arrested 64-year-old Paul Campbell on Wednesday after a student reported inappropriate physical contact while at Brinker Elementary, where Campbell was a teacher. Plano PD said Campbell is being held in the Plano City Jail.<\/p>\n<p>The district said it is aware of the report from Plano PD and said Campbell&#8217;s alleged conduct &#8220;is reprehensible and is completely inconsistent with the values and expectations we hold for all Plano ISD employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plano ISD said it is cooperating with the police, has reported the alleged incident to the Texas Education Agency and the State Board for Educator Certification and has &#8220;initiated action&#8221; to address Campbell&#8217;s employment with the district.<\/p>\n<p>The district said no further details will be provided as the investigation is active, nor will it identify the student or family involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elementary school teacher for the Plano Independent School District has been arrested on a charge of continuous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2118,10303,160,162,161,1934],"class_list":["post-365863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-child-abuse","tag-child-sex-abuse","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}