A St. Louis-area school superintendent said a teacher now on administrative leave after being accused of child pornography may have secretly videotaped male students undressing for showers while camping.
Fort Zumwalt superintendent Bernard DuBray outlined the concern about 38-year-old Matt Hansen in a letter Monday to parents.
Hansen, of Winfield, is a West Middle School seventh-grade math teacher. While assisting with a camp known as the Outdoor Education Program, Hansen helped look over fifth-grade students from three elementary schools.
DuBray writes there's no evidence Hansen shared the videos. He said parents will be contacted once police figure out which students were videotaped.
Hansen was arrested this month after threatening to jump from a cellular tower in Iowa. His home telephone is disconnected, and court records did not list an attorney.
A
longtime San Francisco gay rights advocate has been arrested after
police said they linked him to an email account that had sent and
received images of toddlers engaging in sex acts with men.
Larry Brinkin, 66, who worked for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission before his retirement two years ago, was jailed overnight Friday after officers seized a desktop computer, two laptops, videos, a floppy disk and thumb drives from his home, the San Francisco Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/Nxa0rv).
Seattle, WA
A 64-year-old substitute teacher in the Snoqualmie School
District has been charged with two counts of first-degree possession of
child pornography for allegedly viewing and saving sexually explicit
images on his computers as well as having erotic writings about killing
and decapitating children, according to King County prosecutors.
Minneapolis, MN
United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for engaging in sexual acts with a minor child.
Jason One Feather, age 39, was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 15, 2012 for aggravated sexual abuse of a minor. He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on June 20, 2012 and pleaded not guilty to the indictment. The maximum penalty upon each conviction is life imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine. The charges are merely accusations, and One Feather is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
Alexandria, VA
Justin Strom, aka “Jae,” “Jae Dee,” or “J-Dirt,” 26, of Lorton, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to recruiting at least eight juvenile girls to engage in commercial sex for his street gang’s prostitution business.
Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II, Attorney General of Virginia; Colonel David Rohrer, Fairfax County, Virginia Chief of Police; and Ronald T. Hosko, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Criminal Division, made the announcement after the plea was accepted by U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris.
“For six years, Justin Strom profited from preying on teenage girls and others he recruited as prostitutes in a commercial sex ring,” said U.S. Attorney MacBride. “Strom is the fifth and final Underground Gangster Crips gang member to plead guilty to sex trafficking a juvenile—a very serious crime that carries a potential life sentence.”
“Justin Strom robbed these girls of their childhoods, their innocence, and their trust, and he did that in the most base, vile, and despicable way possible,” said Attorney General Cuccinelli. “Nothing can ever repair the damages Strom inflicted on his victims, but it’s our hope that today’s guilty plea will help them begin a path towards healing and moving forward.”
“Today, a fifth member of the Underground Gangster Crips pleaded guilty to strong-arming and pimping underage girls in the illegal sex trade—a trade that is taking place here in some of the most affluent neighborhoods in our nation,” said Special Agent in Charge Hosko. “These gang members admitted that they beat and intimidated young girls they met on the Internet or in Metro stops in our area. They preyed on some of the most vulnerable in our society, and today Justin Strom admitted to these crimes.”
Albuquerque, NM
This morning in federal court in Albuquerque, Johnson John, 65, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Church Rock, New Mexico, pled guilty to an aggravated sexual abuse charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of the plea agreement, John will be sentenced to five years of imprisonment to be followed by at least five years of supervised release. John also will be required to register as a sex offender. John has been in federal custody since his arrest on June 5, 2009, and he remains detained pending his sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.
John initially was charged in a criminal complaint filed on June 2, 2009 and subsequently was indicted and charged with four counts of abusive sexual contact of a minor and aggravated sexual abuse of a minor. Proceedings in the case were delayed by competency proceedings.
This morning, John entered a guilty plea to count four of the indictment charging him with aggravated sexual abuse of a minor. In his plea agreement, John admitted that, between May 1, 2000 and September 1, 2000, he attempted to sexually assault a 12-year-old female child. The plea agreement states that John lured the child victim into his home by telling her that the children she was looking for were in his home. Once inside, John physically forced the child victim onto a couch, removed her pants and underwear, and positioned himself on top of the child victim. John did not complete the sexual assault on the child victim because he noticed another child watching through the window. The plea agreement states that the attempted sexual assault occurred within the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Cincinnati, OH
Ryan Fahrenkamp, 43, of Mason was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison, followed by court supervision for the rest of his life, for accessing child pornography websites using a laptop computer that belonged to the school where he was employed as a teacher, taking pornographic images of children who had been students of his, and for possessing child pornography that he had collected from the Internet.
Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Edward J. Hanko, Special Agent in Charge of the Cincinnati Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and West Chester Police Chief Erik Niehaus announced the sentence handed down today by Senior U.S. District Judge Herman Weber.
Fahrenkamp pleaded guilty on August 31, 2011 to one count of transportation of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
According to court documents, Lakota school officials contacted the West Chester Police Department in May 2010 regarding an internal investigation of Fahrenkamp, who taught at one of the elementary schools at the time. A parent had complained to school officials about Fahrenkamp texting her sixth-grade child without her permission. Fahrenkamp had previously been reprimanded by the school for inappropriately communicating with a student.
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