UPDATED May 30.
A Reserve Officer Training teacher in Prosper Independent School District has been arrested for alleged sexual contact with a student.
Michael Christopher Songy, 44, was arrested Wednesday and charged with indecent assault, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail.
Staff Sergeant Songy served as the lead instructor in the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at Rock Hill High School.
A notice sent to Rock Hill parents on Wednesday stated that the district “no longer employs” Songy and is fully cooperating with law enforcement in its investigation.
Court records originally showed that the assault occurred on May 14 of this year but have since been updated to show an offense date of May 21.
Songy was booked into the Collin County Jail on May 28 and released the next day on a $10,000 bond.
He has held a Texas teaching certificate since 2015. Songy received an emergency permit in August 2024 to teach Junior ROTC.
State records show Songy was reported to the Texas Education Agency in July 2024 for sexual misconduct in school—which includes sexual assault, continuous sex abuse of young child, and indecency with a child—but the TEA did not open a formal investigation.
He is one of hundreds of Texas school employees accused of sex crimes involving students and other children in just the past few years, often with multiple arrests each week.
A Little Elm ISD custodian was also arrested Wednesday and charged with continuous sexual assault of an elementary school student under the age of 14.
In 2022, Prosper ISD bus driver Frank Paniagua was arrested for sexually abusing two elementary school sisters for most of a school year. The girls’ mother said Superintendent Holly Ferguson suggested she keep quiet “so as not to attract media attention to her family or Prosper ISD staff.”
Ferguson and the district were sued in federal court by the victims’ family but have claimed immunity from liability for failing to keep students safe from sexual predators employed by their schools.
Legislation approved by the Texas House and Senate would end school districts’ governmental immunity from civil liability in cases of educators sexually abusing students.
Thousands of cases of educator sexual misconduct have been reported to the state since the TEA began keeping organized records in 2021.
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