Massachusetts teacher pleads guilty to federal child pornography charges

Posted Jul 23, 5:03 PM

 

 

By Scott J. Croteau | scroteau@masslive.com

 

A Massachusetts teacher pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to receipt and possession of child pornography charges after authorities caught him with videos of young girls being sexually abused.

Warren Anderson, 27, of Lowell and Harvard, was a teacher in the Narragansett Regional Middle School in Templeton. The U.S. Attorney’s Office called Anderson a high school teacher in a news release.

He was placed on leave after he was arrested last year.

The files contained videos of girls, ranging in age from 3 to 5, being sexually abused, authorities said.

Anderson pleaded guilty to one count each of receipt and possession of child pornography in federal court. He will be sentenced in October.

“As part of an ongoing investigation into the online trade of child pornography through the use of Kik messenger, law enforcement interviewed Anderson in August 2018,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. 

“Anderson admitted accessing sites on the dark web to obtain child pornography, and forensic analysis of his computers revealed that he had thousands of files of child pornography, and that he had used both Kik and a dark web-based messaging platform to discuss and trade child pornography.”