{"id":1268920,"date":"2023-10-19T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1268920"},"modified":"2023-10-23T04:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T09:53:48","slug":"former-longview-isd-employee-pleads-guilty-to-striking-elementary-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1268920","title":{"rendered":"Former Longview ISD teacher sentenced to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1269006\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/PaulaDixon_mugshot-175x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/PaulaDixon_mugshot-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/PaulaDixon_mugshot-174x175.jpg 174w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/PaulaDixon_mugshot-348x350.jpg 348w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/PaulaDixon_mugshot.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; A former Longview ISD employee pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday for multiple counts of injury to a child. According to our news partner KETK, Paula Dixon, 60 of Longview, was arrested in July 2022 along with five other women that year in connection to abuse allegations against special education students at J.L. Everhart Elementary. In her indictment, it said Dixon forced children against a wall, struck them with a stick and pushed a child \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with the knee of Defendant and by sitting on [the child.]\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Former Longview ISD employees Cecelia Gregg, Cynthia Talley and Dixon were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153released from employment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the district, in October 2021 after their discovery of the abuse allegations. Gregg has a trial date set for Dec. 11, and Talley has a hearing set for Dec. 6.<!--more--> The district said two administrators, Cassandra James and Linda Lister who were also charged in the abuse investigation resigned in lieu of termination. Priscilla Johnson, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a teacher who frequented the classroom,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the district, resigned.<\/p>\n<p>James and Lister have upcoming hearing dates set for Nov. 8 on their charges, and Johnson has a hearing date set for Feb. 7. In September 2022, attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announced the school district had reached a $2.5 million settlement with 10 families of students in connection to the abuse investigation. Dixon was indicted in June 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A former Longview ISD employee pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday for multiple counts of injury to a child. According to our news partner KETK, Paula Dixon, 60 of Longview, was arrested in July 2022 along with five other women that year in connection to abuse allegations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1268920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Longview ISD teacher sentenced to prison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1268923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/PaulaDixon_mugshot-175x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former Longview ISD employee pleads guilty to striking elementary students","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 12:43:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/PaulaDixon_mugshot-175x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former Longview ISD employee pleads guilty to striking elementary students","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269091,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268920\/revisions\/1269091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1268923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}