Investigators say a male teacher has been posing as a Southern California girl on Facebook to lure boys into online relationships.
The Orange County Register reports that Irvine police arrested 30-year-old Zachary Reeder on suspicion of lewd conduct with a child, possession and distribution of child “freaky flicks”, and child annoyance.
Police say Reeder convinced the boys to send him sexually explicit photographs of themselves by posing as a young woman.
It’s not believed Reeder had any in-person contact with the boys.
Investigators are trying to determine if Reeder used his job as a history teacher at Servite High School in Anaheim to target victims.
Servite is a Catholic all-boys school.Read more at Fox News
“At first I was just kind of playing around with her and wanted to see how far I could take it, but she seemed to be very interested in actually having sex,” he said. “We then started texting with each other. The conversations and texts became more intense and sexual in nature. She offered several times to come to my house and pick me up and bring me to her home. “The teen said he never went because he was too nervous.
” I told her that I wasn’t sure if I wanted to, but she kept asking. She said she was going to come to my house right then,” he said. ” I got nervous because she was talking about ‘slaughtering’ me. She told me she would not hurt me, but I felt the situation was getting out of hand.”Anton was arrested on May 30, when she arrived at his home after he had told her to buy condoms.
"I was responsible for the filming of a minor m**turbating," he told Brooklyn federal Magistrate Judge Roanne Mann.Reports say, in addition to making the film, Brooks posted his footage online, and that of an adult s*xually assaulting a child, via a file sharing website. One of the people he sent the recording to was an undercover FBI agent. Federal investigators uncovered over 1,000 digital files at Brooks home, featuring children as young as 10 posing for provocative photos. Finding the evidence led to an FBI probe which included interviews with school staff, parents, and students. In the end, authorities concluded that Brooks was mol*sting children left in his care, and arrested him last year.
“Some of the (relationships) had been going on for at least one year or longer,” said Stacy Carson, assistant special agent for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.The teacher was suspended with pay from her job at Charlton County High School, pending a formal employment hearing, where the school district’s superintendent, John Lairsey, will recommend her termination.
“We’re just shocked and disappointed,” said Lairsey. “And it’s just hard to believe. Just disappointed and disheartened that people we put our trust in would violate that trust.”The school district received a complaint about Wilson and started investigating the claims. Wilson has worked at the school for a decade.
“We received information within the school system,” he said. “The main meetings continued on Tuesday. At that point, we got the sheriff’s office and GBI involved, and (Wilson) was removed from class before lunch.”DaNita Wilson’s bond was set at $35,000 — $5,000 for each case of sexual assault. Her court dates have not yet been scheduled.
“Working with LAPD and the school district, this office will aggressively prosecute adults who prey upon our children,” City Attorney Carmen Trutanich said in a release. “Our schools should be one of the safest of places in the community for our children, and I will do everything within my authority to ensure their safety.”Leon's bail was set at $35,000. If convicted, he could face up to 5 and a half years in jail and $26,000 in fines, according to Trutanich's office.
On the last day of class, June 15, 2012, one 13-year-old female student reported that her teacher, Leon, had allegedly touched her inappropriately on that day. Three days later, another 13-year-old female student of Leon’s reported that on both June 15, 2012, and several days earlier, Leon had engaged in similar behavior. Charges also include allegations by a third female student of the school who claims to have been similarly abused by Leon on several occasions in 2010 when she was 14 years old.Source
