IPS employees charged with failure to report suspended with pay

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Two Indianapolis Public Schools administrators have been suspended with pay after they were charged with misdemeanors.

According to IPS, the two women were put on suspension following their failure to report sex allegations between a teenager and school counselor.

Court documents indicate an Indianapolis Public Schools administrator withheld information from authorities about a school counselor’s alleged sexual relationship with a student.

IPS Human Resources Director Dr. Lela ‘Tina’ Hester wrote in a February 18 email that police should “stay out” while the district investigated the matter internally “from an HR perspective,” according to court documents released Wednesday.

Those documents were made public on the same day that prosecutors filed charges against Hester and Shalon Dabney, an IPS case worker, for failing to make a timely report to authorities about the allegations.