Former Principal Jerry Dority and school counselor Yatta Collins were fired by a unanimous vote from the Cobb County Board of Education today, the Marietta Daily Journal reports via Twitter.
The decision comes a little more than a month after the two were arrested for . They had since been on paid administrative leave.
State law says that a person overseeing children, like at a school, must report a case of suspected abuse immediately, but in no case later than 24 hours from the time “there is reasonable cause to believe a child has been abused.” Failure to do so results in a misdemeanor charge.
Dority, 50, and Collins, 40, allegedly waited until after that time to report the case to authorities, police said.
Jeanne Walker, who comes from Sprayberry High as a curriculum assistant principal, has been the acting principal at Tapp.
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Now she should start all over again and really look at her self if she really likes to deal with children. Because what I have seen at Tapp she is not a nice person at all and does not care about the children. She only cares to receive her pay check and stick her nose up in the air because she is very I mean very arrogant. I hope that the school district will now continue to look further into Tapp Middle School because there are many more problems than just Mrs. Dority. Also make sure that all the cameras work in that school the camera wasn't working at the front entrance so instead of fixing the camera she ordered the camera to be removed and now there is no camera. Where is our leadership at Cobb county school district are there still any leaders. Chance must come today not tomorrow.