SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. —

The assistant principal of a school in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has been charged with failure to report child abuse.

On Dec. 2, the school resource officer at Beech Springs Middle School was told by staff of an incident involving two juveniles.

The Duncan Police Department said it was determined that the incident took place at an address within Spartanburg County and outside the jurisdiction of Duncan police.

The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the incident and began to investigate.

The school resource officer was also told that the juvenile told Assistant Principal Brian Thompson about the incident on Oct. 24.

Officers said that Thompson is a mandated reporter and the incident disclosed to him met the threshold for a mandator

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