Haley Radabaugh
Introduction
Haley Krista Radabaugh, a 28-year-old former art teacher at Barbara Bush Middle School in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District, was arrested twice in 2026 over alleged misconduct with her own middle-school students: first in May on a child grooming charge after students reported she was sending sexual Instagram messages to a 14-year-old boy, and again on July 3 on a second-degree felony count of improper relationship between educator and student, filed while she was out on bond from the first case. No plea or trial outcome has been reported in either case, and she remains presumed innocent.
Background Information
Radabaugh had worked for Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD since the 2022-23 school year and held a Texas teaching certificate since 2021 — a credential the Texas Education Agency confirmed was under review after her arrest. At the time of her first arrest, the district referred to her as “a former employee” and said the Irving Police Department was leading an active investigation. Texas Scorecard noted she was one of four Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD teachers charged with sex crimes in 2026 alone.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Radabaugh faces a third-degree child grooming charge and a second-degree improper-relationship charge carrying two to twenty years. Both sets of allegations are unadjudicated and she is presumed innocent.
According to the arrest warrant obtained by NBC 5, multiple students at Barbara Bush Middle School came forward, telling a school resource officer that Radabaugh “was known to be having inappropriate sexual conversations with at least three middle school students and providing drugs to students.” A 14-year-old boy said that on May 13, Radabaugh began sending him sexually suggestive messages on Instagram, including one reading “There was a kid I crushed on hard before you,” and sent him a photo that appeared to show the teacher getting out of the shower. The student described himself as being “disgusted and losing sleep” after the teacher messaged him, per the arrest affidavit.
Radabaugh was first arrested in May 2026 and charged with child grooming, a third-degree felony, posting a $25,000 bond. While out on that bond she was arrested again on July 3, 2026 in Denton and charged with improper relationship between educator and student, a second-degree felony punishable by two to twenty years in prison; she was booked into the Denton County Jail and released the next day on a $10,000 bond. Irving police said the new charge was related to the same incident, and that the department could release no further details because the alleged victims are juveniles.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The case circulated locally through the May and July coverage, with parents confronting the pattern NBC 5 described — a teacher allegedly using Instagram DMs and a school-year crush confession to pull a 14-year-old into sexual conversation while supplying drugs to students. The school district declined to discuss her at all, telling FOX 4 it could not share information because Radabaugh was a former employee and the police investigation was active. The context Texas Scorecard supplied was the district’s own bleak arithmetic: Radabaugh was the fourth CFBISD teacher charged with a sex crime that year, after three colleagues charged in March alone.
Current Status
Radabaugh is out on bond — $25,000 from the May grooming case and $10,000 from the July improper-relationship case — with her Texas teaching certificate under TEA review. No plea, trial date or disposition has been reported in either case, the Irving police investigation remains active, and both sets of charges remain pending with her presumed innocent.
Impact on Their Career/Life
A teaching career that began in 2021 ended with a district that will not say her name beyond “former employee,” a state certificate under formal review, and two felony charges pending in Denton County courts. The second arrest — for a crime allegedly committed against a student while she was already on bond for grooming that student’s classmate — transformed her case from a one-charge scandal into the exemplar of a district-wide pattern, one of four CFBISD educators charged with sex crimes in a single year. Whatever the courts decide, her classroom days are done.