Norfolk middle school guidance counselor charged with drug distribution, kept working

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Nearly three months after her arrest, Sheena Latoya Ingram, was still working at Lafayette-Winona Middle School in Norfolk. School administrators told WAVY-10’s Mary Kay Mallonee that they had no knowledge of her arrest, until the reporter brought it to their attention on Friday.

School spokesman Mike Spencer said: “It was really through that contact that we became aware that we had an employee at one of the middle schools who had been arrested. Once we got that information, as policy would dictate, we placed that individual on leave.”

Spencer continued: “Just having a role model of that caliber around children is not what you and I would want for our children.”

On December 22, 2009, Ingram was arrested by Norfolk police, and charged with possession of heroin and marijuana with the intent to distribute, as well as two weapons charges.

On March 3, she was indicted on all four felonies.

Apparently, the Norfolk school system has no procedures in place to discover such information on their own.

Norfolk school officials claim that employees are responsible for reporting any arrests or convictions to administrators, on their own.

Ingram has since been placed on administrative leave.

Lafayette-Winona Middle School has been rocked recently by multiple cheating scandals in which teachers were found to be giving students the answers to questions on standardized tests.

 

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