As ex-Leavenworth teacher faces new charges, 3 district employees charged with not reporting child abuse
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) - Additional charges have been filed in a case involving a former elementary school teacher in Leavenworth.
Those new charges include an additional count for aggravated indecent liberties with a child, criminal restraint and four counts of battery.
Riscovallez was fired from the Leavenworth Unified School District on Feb. 27, 2025.
Court documents shared that the second count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child was between Aug. 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024. Jerome Riscovallez engaged in indecent behavior with a child.
From October 1 to 21, 2023, he was accused of restraining another person.
Riscovallez knowingly caused physical to another in a disrespectful way on four separate occasions, court documents allege. Those were from Aug. 1, 2023, to May 31, 2024; Oct. 1 to 31, 2023; from Dec. 1, 2023, to May 31, 2024; and Aug. 1, 2023, to May 31, 2024.
The new charges were filed as other Leavenworth School District employees face charges for failure to report child abuse.
Alyssa O’Neal, an assistant principal at Henry Leavenworth Elementary, was charged with three counts. She was a mandatory reporter and had reason to believe a child had been harmed in some form and failed to make a report, charging documents stated.
Kelsey Stimatze, the principal at Henry Leavenworth Elementary, was has been charged with two counts for failure to report child abuse or neglect as a mandatory reporter.
Amy Sloan, the executive director of human resources for the school district, was also charged with three counts for failure to report child abuse or neglect as a mandatory reporter.
There is no confirmed connection between the charges filed against O’Neal, Stimatze and Sloan with those of which Riscovallez is accused. However, Riscovallez is listed as a witness in the charging documents for the employees.
Riscovallez was fired on Feb. 27, 2025. The other three employees remain ‘actively employed’ with the school district, a spokesperson said.
According to Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson, the new charges against the s mark the first time his office has filed cases like these, and at this time the s have not been directly linked to the charges against Riscovallez.
“We have three cases filed now, and these are the first times that we have seen cases for them, and they are all innocent until proven guilty,” Thompson said.
Kansas law requires certain professionals – such as educators, social workers, and some healthcare providers – to report any suspected abuse or neglect. These individuals are known as mandated reporters.
“To have that assures that kids are being checked on, that they’re not being abused or neglected,” Thompson said. “These people might be the only ones that see this child, other than the people who are doing this violence to them.”
While the criminal complaints outline that reports were not made in a timely manner, Thompson emphasized that mandated reporters are expected to act within a “reasonable amount of time.”
“At some point in time they need to make a rationale – make sure to make a report and understand why it took a little bit of time to do that,” he said.
They are scheduled for arraignment hearings on June 20.
KCTV5 reached out to Leavenworth School District and received the following response:
Due to confidentiality obligations for students and staff, and to avoid intervening in the judicial process, Leavenworth USD 453 has no additional comment to provide at this time.
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