Tarrant County grand jury declines to indict teacher, coach on child sex abuse charges
A Tarrant County grand jury has declined to indict an elementary teacher and a former high school volleyball coach on molestation charges in separate cases which allegedly occurred in Grapevine.
The jurors returned their no-bill decisions this summer in the cases of 55-year-old Jeffrey Brooks of Euless and 46-year-old Anthony Clark of Hurst.
The no-bill decision was not to determine guilt or innocence in a case. The ruling means the jury found there was insufficient evidence to prosecute someone.
The proceedings of a grand jury are secret.
Both cases were investigated by Grapevine police, and the incidents allegedly occurred years ago.
Brooks was charged in January with indecency/fondling after a 23-year-old woman made an outcry after going through therapy and learning Brooks was teaching in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford school district.
An arrest warrant accused Brooks of fondling the woman when she was in the second grade in 2005 at Grapevine Faith Christian School as she was having a private piano lesson.
At the time of his arrest in January, Brooks was a teacher at South Euless Elementary School in Euless. H-E-B school officials noted there had been no allegations against Brooks in the 14 years he had been employed in the district.
Brooks was placed on leave after his arrest. Information on his status in the district as of Thursday was not available.
Clark, a former North Texas high school volleyball coach, was booked into jail in March and accused of sexually assaulting a then 15-year-old girl between September 1999 and February 2000 in Grapevine.
That teen, who is now an adult, made an outcry in January, and kept journals of their alleged sexual encounters, according to an arrest warrant for Clark.
Clark had been a coach in the Southlake Carroll, Lewisville, Keller and White Settlement school districts.
He was not employed as a coach when he was arrested in March.
