A principal in Kentucky took students’ phones and then sold any pornographic images he found on them (meaning the pics were of teens).
Yet another argument for school choice.
A fired Kentucky high school principal took students’ phones so he could steal porn images and trade them online, according to authorities.
As principal of LaRue County High School, Stephen Kyle Goodlett searched for nude pictures on phones confiscated from students, said Department of Homeland Security Special Agent Brady Oberholtzer in a federal complaint.
Goodlett, 36, was indicted Wednesday in Louisville on federal charges of possessing and transporting child pornography. He was arrested at his home in October, and his dismissal was announced a few days later.
The probe launched in September after a 20-year-old woman learned that naked images she had taken for her boyfriend when she was 15 had been uploaded to a porn trading website in Russia. She went to Elizabethtown police, who asked for federal help.
Authorities found that the IP address of the device that uploaded the images matches an account registered by Goodlett.
Police found 60 examples of child porn on Goodlett’s devices. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children later identified images of the Elizabethtown woman as well as a naked girl aged 10-14 in Goodlett’s Dropbox account, authorities said.
Goodlett admitted that he transferred images from phones confiscated from students to his personal thumb drive “without their consent or knowledge,” Oberholtzer wrote. Goodlett said he would share them to the website “with the intent of trading for more images.”
The former principal also confessed to authorities that he has an addiction to porn.
Via The Daily News