Fort Worth Principal Arrested After Abandoning Children in Hotel (Went Drinkng and Dancing)

Star Telegram ^ | 5/8/2010 | Domingo Ramirez

[Dallas59]

FORT WORTH -- A Forth Worth middle school principal was behind bars Sunday on charges that she abandoned her children at a hotel to go to a nightclub in downtown Dallas, authorities said Sunday.

Carla Wesbrook-Spaniel, 44, was in the Dallas County Jail in lieu of $30,000 bail.

Wesbrook-Spaniel, the principal at J.P. Elder Middle School, was arrested about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in Dallas after she scuffled with a bouncer and Dallas police near a nightclub in the 1500 block of Main Street, according to a report by The Dallas Morning News.

[Dallas59]

Apparently it wasn’t in a “bad” part of town..../s

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The Morning News also reported that Wesbrook-Spaniel's husband is a U.S. Army reserve captain in Iraq and that the military had sent a chaplain to speak to her in jail.

Leaving her young children alone at the hotel aside, what was this woman doing out at a nightclub late at night?

If I were her husband here, I would be asking her this question.

[Right Wing Assault]

I like dogs. I had a bitch Wesbrook Spaniel once, but it was dumb as dog poop. Always getting in fights, trying to get beer out of the fridge when we were sleeping, always hanging around with the black lab down the street. That’s why the lady was a tramp.

[JRandomFreeper]

Her husband, Army Reserve Capt. Keith Spaniel, is a civil affairs officer who left for his third deployment in August.

Nothing like a good wife to enhance the old career.

And people ask why I remain single, celibate, and (relatively) sane.

/johnny

[Michael.SF.]

she’s well-paid to look after?

Apparently she is very well paid. The hotel in question, The Adolphus, is not exactly a Motel 6, with rates starting at $200.00 a night.

[hal ogen]

She’s a great role model for her school kids and her kids. Yet another devoted educator.

[Michael.SF.]

I had a bitch... once, but it was dumb as dog poop. Always getting in fights, trying to get beer out of the fridge

Sounds like my first wife.

[metalcor]

I suspect she is addicted to something, and with her husband deployed in Iraq...... well, a woman has needs.

[GeronL]

mom of the year?

[GeronL]

Yes, but Laz isn’t planning to marry her.

[writetolife]

Not sure that the Dream Team could get her out of this one.

[GeronL]

Mayor Kwame did move down here didn’t he?

[Dallas59]

Hard decision.....Do you stay with a woman like this for the kids or divorce her for the sake of the safety of the children?

[LibFreeOrDie]

From her bio:

Dr. Spaniel’s biggest accomplishment is that she is married Keith Spaniel...

[GeronL]

Her husband is the white Tariq Aziz?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Mommy’ has a ‘widdow dwinking pwoblem’ me suspects!

[GeronL]

$200 a night.

wow.

did she plan to take someone else back there?

otherwise wouldn’t it be cheaper to hire a baby sitter?

[njslim]

The Adolphus, is not exactly a Motel 6, with rates starting at $200.00 a night.

So she couldn’t afford a baby sitter....?

[Dallas59]

She wasn’t looking for a babysitter at the club that’s for sure.