A Texas judge on Monday rejected a plea deal for a former Arkansas teacher accused of secretly filming boys in restrooms, the Texarkana Gazette reported.
Shane Samuel Jones, 31, pleaded guilty to invasive visual recording earlier this month before 202nd District Judge John Tidwell. The plea came as part of an agreement that called for Jones getting five years probation.
Tidwell said Monday that he reviewed the presentence investigation report and will not approve the plea arrangement.
"I'm not going to give you probation. The people of Bowie County may after a trial, but I'm not," Tidwell said.
Tidwell allowed Jones to withdraw his earlier plea of guilty and added some strict conditions to Jones' bond, including requiring him to wear a GPS ankle monitor, ordering him to house arrest and prohibiting him from using a computer.
If a grand jury indicts Jones in Texas, the case could proceed to trial.
In November, an 11-year-old boy told his father a man had slipped his phone under the stall divider in a restroom at the J.C. Penney store in Central Mall in Texarkana, Texas, and police were called, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Jones later admitted filming and deleting a video of the boy, authorities said.
"He stated that he began videoing male students at his place of employment, Trinity Christian School, while they were using the toilets in the bathroom stalls approximately two years ago," the affidavit states.
Jones was fired from his job as a teacher at Trinity Christian, which is in Texarkana, Arkansas, because of the allegations. Jones began teaching at the school in 2015 after several years of employment as a teacher at College Hill Middle School, according to earlier reports.
Jones has also been arrested for video voyeurism by Arkansas police and is free on a $100,000 bond in Miller County.