A center faculty paraprofessional in Hillsborough County is going through greater than a dozen counts of possession of child pornography, the sheriff’s workplace introduced on Friday.
Sean Shafer, 23, was arrested on Wednesday after authorities discovered 15 confirmed child porn recordsdata on his digital units. Detectives have been led to research Shafer from an web tip in May.
Shafer works as a teacher’s aid at Mulrennan Middle School in Valrico. The sheriff’s workplace stated at the moment, no college students are suspected of being victims and all the photographs discovered seem to have been downloaded from the web.
Shafer faces 15 counts of possession of child pornography, 26 counts of in-state transmission of child pornography by digital machine, and one depend of possession of obscene materials.
“The well-being of children should be the top priority for all of our school district employees, so it is especially upsetting that someone who works in the classroom would share obscene images of children online,” stated Sheriff Chad Chronister. “Our office will continue working diligently to find and arrest any individual who seeks to take advantage of minors or aides in their victimization.”
The Hillsborough County School District launched the next assertion.
“We are both shocked and disgusted by these allegations. Mr. Shafer has been with our district since 2018 and has had no reported incidents involving students. He will not be returning to our district.”