Teacher sentenced for possessing more than 700 sexual abuse pictures and video of children as young as infants (3 Viewers)
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SparkleGem
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They need stronger background checks for people who work directly with children.
savgbeast
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wiggins
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What these 'people' think is that everyone has the same desires but only they have the courage to act upon them...
hatefulsuffering
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Fucking appalling that we, as a people, can’t outright kill this sick fuck! Crimes against children, rapists and the lot should be tortured until death, while televised publicly. Seems that even w/all the division politically, socially, etc, one thing most can agree on is they deserve to be put down in the most horrible, imaginable way possible.
Boondocks Gussie
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Of course it's my County. But Grady Judd is much awesome.
GoreErectus
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Why is only posessing such material a crime? So if it's locked in a safe in your house, it's still a crime?Shawn Christopher Fitzgerald possessed more than 700 images of child sexual abuse material, authorities said. (Mug shot: Polk County Jail)
A former Florida teacher is going to prison for possessing more than 700 images of child sexual abuse material.
Shawn Christopher Fitzgerald, 49, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday, the Office for the State Attorney for the 10th Judicial Circuit announced .
According to a news release and probable cause affidavit from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, investigators got a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children showing that a user on the KIK messenger app uploaded a video of child sexual abuse material on Feb. 20, 2020. The footage showed a man sexually abusing a girl, who was approximately 10 to 12 years of age, authorities said.
Investigators tracked the KIK user to Fitzgerald’s home in Lakeland.
Post-Miranda, Fitzgerald told investigators that the email address linked to the KIK account was his old one, according to the probable cause affidavit.
He admitted using the app in the past and that he saw child sexual abuse material there in the messaging groups, documents said. Fitzgerald, however, said he only went to KIK to look for adult porn, and that he never looked for child sexual abuse material or uploaded it to any social media platform.
But when Fitzgerald let authorities look at his cellphone, they found a “Calculator Vault” application, which was used to hide data. According to documents, the defendant claimed he used it in the past to store photos from his extramarital affair. Investigators, however, took a forensic look at his device and found hundreds of illicit materials in which adults sexually abused boys and girls.
The investigation revealed that Fitzgerald possessed more than 700 pictures and videos of children, as young as infants, being sexually abused by adults or sexually exploited,” wrote prosecutors.
Deputies said that Fitzgerald taught at Lakeland High School and also served as a teacher there. He also was Youth Director at First United Methodist Church in the city of Bartow.
Forensic analysis of his cellphone showed he routinely viewed child sexual abuse material during his daily life, including while teaching, being a youth minister, coaching and going on field trips, authorities said.
An arrest like this shakes the entire community,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at the time of the arrest in November 2020. “A man entrusted with the education and guidance of so many children, working closely with them, and betraying that trust in such a heinous way. Sadly, people who possess child pornography are out there, all over the world. But making these kinds of arrests are not rare in Polk County, due to the diligent work of the PCSO Computer Crimes Unit.”
Jail records show that Fitzgerald was locked up again on Thursday at the Polk County Jail; authorities are holding him for the prison system. His attorney of record did not immediately respond to a Law&Crime request for comment.
Kyle Kennedy, a spokesman for Polk County Public Schools, told Law&Crime on Monday that he can confirm that Fitzgerald no longer works for the school district.
We appreciate the work of law enforcement in bringing this case to justice,” he wrote in an email. “Our schools, and community, deserve to be kept safe from individuals who engage in this kind of behavior.”
Teacher sentenced for possessing hundreds of sexual abuse material of kids as young as infants
"An arrest like this shakes the entire community."lawandcrime.com
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put him in gen pop
GoreErectus
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goddamn those descriptions…🤢 poor helpless children. i hope they’re able to identify the victims and get them the justice they deserve but i doubt it..:
Silent Shark
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He can get said sample with his tongue. I can’t believe that people like him exist and even more disturbing is that they look like everyone else.You never ever know who they are that scares me
Are you saying that it shouldn't be? Anything to do with sexual exploitation of children is illegal. Sharing it, downloading it and viewing it and having it is all illegal and should carry a fucking death sentence worldwide. Anyone who is involved in CP or Hatecore should be slowly tortured to death publicly and on every channel live.
GoreErectus
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But he wasn't actually molesting children. He was looking at pictures
But by looking at the pictures he is a consumer of that shit. The more people look at that shit the more sick fucks will be out there taking pictures and videos. If no one viewed it there would be no reason to make it. Sure there's still going to be sick fucks doing it for themselves but it would sure save alot of children from being abused. A child is innocent and should be protected not used for sick amusement. Fuck all skinners to the lowest bowels of Hell.
CrabCoreKing
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A lot of the time when someone is arrested with those sorts of images, it’s actually a law enforcement agent or a law enforcement hosted website (bait) that is set up to trick them into downloading the serious images this police report describes, to get them a harsher sentence. The images they intended to download are usually much less serious and more like conventional porn, you know, where the participants at least appear to enjoy themselves. Most folk don’t get off on torture/extreme porn, MAPs included.
Lizzie Borden
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Fucking piece of shit. Well I guarantee he'll get his fair share of treatment in the pen.. Those guys don't look too fondly on cho-mos..Shawn Christopher Fitzgerald possessed more than 700 images of child sexual abuse material, authorities said. (Mug shot: Polk County Jail)
A former Florida teacher is going to prison for possessing more than 700 images of child sexual abuse material.
Shawn Christopher Fitzgerald, 49, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday, the Office for the State Attorney for the 10th Judicial Circuit announced .
According to a news release and probable cause affidavit from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, investigators got a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children showing that a user on the KIK messenger app uploaded a video of child sexual abuse material on Feb. 20, 2020. The footage showed a man sexually abusing a girl, who was approximately 10 to 12 years of age, authorities said.
Investigators tracked the KIK user to Fitzgerald’s home in Lakeland.
Post-Miranda, Fitzgerald told investigators that the email address linked to the KIK account was his old one, according to the probable cause affidavit.
He admitted using the app in the past and that he saw child sexual abuse material there in the messaging groups, documents said. Fitzgerald, however, said he only went to KIK to look for adult porn, and that he never looked for child sexual abuse material or uploaded it to any social media platform.
But when Fitzgerald let authorities look at his cellphone, they found a “Calculator Vault” application, which was used to hide data. According to documents, the defendant claimed he used it in the past to store photos from his extramarital affair. Investigators, however, took a forensic look at his device and found hundreds of illicit materials in which adults sexually abused boys and girls.
The investigation revealed that Fitzgerald possessed more than 700 pictures and videos of children, as young as infants, being sexually abused by adults or sexually exploited,” wrote prosecutors.
Deputies said that Fitzgerald taught at Lakeland High School and also served as a teacher there. He also was Youth Director at First United Methodist Church in the city of Bartow.
Forensic analysis of his cellphone showed he routinely viewed child sexual abuse material during his daily life, including while teaching, being a youth minister, coaching and going on field trips, authorities said.
An arrest like this shakes the entire community,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at the time of the arrest in November 2020. “A man entrusted with the education and guidance of so many children, working closely with them, and betraying that trust in such a heinous way. Sadly, people who possess child pornography are out there, all over the world. But making these kinds of arrests are not rare in Polk County, due to the diligent work of the PCSO Computer Crimes Unit.”
Jail records show that Fitzgerald was locked up again on Thursday at the Polk County Jail; authorities are holding him for the prison system. His attorney of record did not immediately respond to a Law&Crime request for comment.
Kyle Kennedy, a spokesman for Polk County Public Schools, told Law&Crime on Monday that he can confirm that Fitzgerald no longer works for the school district.
We appreciate the work of law enforcement in bringing this case to justice,” he wrote in an email. “Our schools, and community, deserve to be kept safe from individuals who engage in this kind of behavior.”
Teacher sentenced for possessing hundreds of sexual abuse material of kids as young as infants
"An arrest like this shakes the entire community."
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