More than a year after a child sexual assault investigation, a former Arlington charter school principal pleaded guilty Wednesday, according to Tarrant County court records.
Richard Adams, principal of the Gibbins campus was arrested in February 2025 on charges related to failing to report abuse, tampering with evidence and tampering with a witness. Adams received probation for seven years, court records show.
“He’s got to go through a sex offender indoctrination program where they do a polygraph and all that kind of stuff to see where he falls. And he’s no longer allowed to be employed in education,” former Newman International Academy Police Chief Matthew Antkowiak told Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV…