Gloria Resendiz

Introduction

Gloria Martinez Resendiz is a 35-year-old former Spanish teacher at Hebron High School in Carrollton, Texas, who turned herself in to police on October 6, 2026, after warrants accused her of an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old female student. She is charged with indecency with a child by sexual contact, a second-degree felony, and child grooming, a third-degree felony, and remained in custody at the Denton County Jail after her surrender. The allegations have been described in a police affidavit and by the Carrollton Police Department, but they have not been tested in court: Resendiz has not entered a plea, and she is presumed innocent unless and until a court rules otherwise.

Background Information

Hebron High School is a campus of the Lewisville Independent School District in Carrollton, a Dallas-area suburb roughly 21 miles from downtown Dallas. Resendiz taught Spanish there, according to students interviewed by CBS News Texas, and served as a national referee for US Soccer — a role that had been featured in a local Telemundo 39 report only months before her arrest. The student at the center of the case was enrolled in one of Resendiz’s classes during a previous school year but was not one of her students when the investigation began, police said.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Charged, not tried. Resendiz has been charged but has not entered a plea, and no court has tried the charges. The account below comes from a police affidavit and investigators’ statements as described in news coverage; the conduct attributed to her is alleged. She is presumed innocent unless and until a court rules otherwise.

The case began on September 27, 2026, when a Hebron High School administrator contacted the Carrollton Police Department about concerning electronic communications between Resendiz and a juvenile student, according to police. Detectives opened an investigation and reported finding evidence of an ongoing inappropriate relationship. The girl’s parents, after discovering FaceTime video calls, phone calls and text messages exchanged with Resendiz, handed their daughter’s phone to investigators, who recovered deleted messages showing the teacher had showered the student with gifts, the New York Post reported, citing an affidavit obtained by NBC DFW.

The affidavit’s most detailed allegations come from the student’s own words. Investigators said they found locked journal entries on the teen’s phone that described the pair kissing, cuddling and discussing the need to hide their relationship: one June entry cited in the affidavit stated it had been nearly three months since the two first recognized their feelings, and another described a first kiss in March 2026. The student described the two as dating and wrote that they had to “sneak around” and “hide,” per the affidavit. Detectives said the two communicated three to four times daily, with some conversations lasting more than seven hours, and that during the past year the student had spent nearly every day after school with Resendiz, eating lunch alone with her in her classroom.

Public Reaction and Consequences

Resendiz surrendered at the Carrollton Jail on October 6 and was transferred to the Denton County Jail, where a booking photograph from jail records was published in coverage of the case. The Lewisville Independent School District said she was placed on administrative leave and is “strictly prohibited from entering any district facility,” and it notified parents about the allegations while offering counseling services to Hebron students. Students interviewed by CBS News Texas described themselves as shocked: “In school, you would have never thought … no one would really think that she would be the type of person to do things like that,” said student Preston Giustiniani. Police said the investigation is ongoing and additional charges could be filed as investigators continue reviewing evidence.

Current Status

As of early October 2026, Resendiz is being held at the Denton County Jail following her October 6 surrender, and the case has not yet reached an arraignment or plea in the available coverage. Neither the police statements nor the published affidavit details name a defense attorney for her, and CBS News Texas reported that no one answered the door when it visited her home for comment. She has not publicly responded to the charges. Police have said only that their investigation remains open.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The charges ended Resendiz’s classroom career in all but name overnight: she is barred from every district facility while on administrative leave, her booking photo is attached in coverage to allegations of grooming and indecency with a child, and a case built on years of alleged secret messaging has drawn attention to how a relationship of this kind persisted in a suburban school district despite daily in-person contact. The case has also renewed attention to the screening duty schools carry — “it’s the school and the school’s administration that has the responsibility to be on the lookout for those boundary crossings,” personal-injury attorney Jill Herz, who is unrelated to the case, told CBS News Texas. If convicted, Resendiz faces the sentencing ranges of Texas’s second- and third-degree felony statutes; until then, every allegation remains unproven in court.

Sources

• *New York Post, “High school teacher accused of grooming female student,” October 8, 2026 — source
• *CBS News Texas, “Hebron High School teacher surrenders in child sex crime case, police say,” October 2026 — source
• *Yahoo News / Dallas Express, “Hebron High School Teacher Arrested On Alleged Child Sex Crime Charges,” October 2026 — source
• *Carrollton Leader / Star Local Media, “Carrollton Police Arrest Hebron High School Teacher in Ongoing Investigation,” October 2026 — source