The former principal of Baldwin Middle-Senior High School was arrested June 29 on a charge of failing to report child abuse, Duval County Public Schools officials said.
Michael Townsend’s third-degree felony arrest happened less than six weeks after Baldwin teacher James Mulvey was charged with seeking a romantic relationship with a student, but it’s not known whether the two cases are related. If convicted, Townsend’s maximum possible sentence would be five years behind bars.
Townsend had been reassigned earlier in June “due to an internal personnel investigation,” a school district spokeswoman said by email…