CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A Cape Coral teacher has been arrested after he reportedly sent a picture of his genitalia to a student.
Joseph Michael Reynolds was once a teacher at Diplomat Middle School in accordance to Cape Coral Police.
The division’s Special Victim’s Unit was once knowledgeable by way of Diplomat Middle School’s Resource Officer relating to a imaginable irrelevant courting between Reynolds and one of his scholars. It was once printed that Reynolds supplied his telephone quantity to the student and started a texting verbal exchange chain.
That correspondence would lead him to sending the lewd picture.
Reynolds is facing charges of transmission of subject material this is destructive to a minor, public order crimes, obscene verbal exchange, obscenity, ownership of obscene subject material, and lewd and lascivious conduct.
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Parents of scholars at Diplomat Middle School won the next e-mail in regards to the arrest:
“Good Morning Wildcats – You are receiving this important message in compliance with Florida Statute 1012.797, Parental Notification of Arrest of Employees. I must inform you that Mr. Joseph Reynolds, Teacher at Diplomat Middle School was arrested on 04/07/2023 for the following: Transmission of Material Harmful to Minors to a Minor by Electronic Device or Equipment. Please know that The School District of Lee County and law enforcement will handle this matter most appropriately.”
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