A Broward County elementary faculty bodily training trainer was arrested Tuesday on seven counts of possession of kid pornography, police stated.
Craig Rogers, 60, a trainer at Westchester Elementary Faculty in Coral Springs, is accused of working a social media account that was sharing little one pornography with different customers by way of Kik, a messaging social media platform, Coral Springs Police stated in a information launch Wednesday.
A Coral Springs Police detective with the Web Crimes In opposition to Kids unit obtained an internet tip in late Could from the Nationwide Middle of Lacking and Endangered Kids, which led to the investigation, the police division stated.
Movies on the Kik account confirmed victims as younger as 6 collaborating in sexual acts with adults, in keeping with a redacted possible trigger affidavit the police division launched. A minimum of 75 information confirmed “nude kids however fall in need of the statutory definition of kid pornography,” the affidavit stated.
“It was decided that quite a few images positioned in Roger’s Kik account confirmed his workplace and gear room within the faculty,” the police division stated within the information launch.
Rogers shared photographs with different Kik customers of “clothed college students engaged in bodily training,” the affidavit stated. In Kik messages, Rogers referred to as himself a “pervert trainer” and wrote, “My favourite college students are age 12 at my faculty.”
Different messages indicated Rogers had despatched sexually specific photographs of himself to different customers on Kik whereas at his desk on the faculty, the affidavit stated.
Rogers had been renting a room at a motel in Coral Springs, the place Coral Springs and Broward Sheriff’s Workplace personnel from completely different items executed a search warrant Wednesday. Investigators took a number of electronics from the motel for forensic evaluation, the police division stated.
Rogers was booked into the Broward Major Jail, the place he remained Wednesday night. On the time of his arrest, he was on pre-trial launch in an unrelated case, the affidavit stated.
Rogers was arrested on misdemeanor prices of stalking and giving a false crime report in April, stemming from alleged repeated harassment of a household of three, together with a Coral Springs Police officer, who lived subsequent door to him on the time, a possible trigger affidavit stated. Rogers has pleaded not responsible to these prices.
Keyla Concepción, a spokesperson for Broward County Public Faculties, stated in a press release Wednesday afternoon that Rogers was reassigned away from the college and college students in April, after his earlier arrest, which was off campus.
“Our District and college administration are deeply disturbed by the allegations and are cooperating absolutely with regulation enforcement in its investigation,” the assertion stated.
Rogers was employed at Westchester Elementary in 2003 and has been a PE trainer since 2004.
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