According to Fox News.com, a teachers' aide
in a Brooklyn elementary school faces up to 50
years in jail after pleading guilty to filming child pornography in the
classroom where he worked.
Taleek Brooks, 42, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of producing and
distributing the illegal materials before a judge at a federal court in the New York City borough.
Brooks, who works as an aide at Public School 243, was accused of having
"regularly downloaded and distributed videos and images depicting child
pornography over the Internet through a peer-to-peer file sharing
program," the FBI said.
In December 2001, Brooks accepted a friend request on the peer-to-peer
network. That person was an undercover agent who was able to access and
download graphic videos and images.
The next month, agents moved on Brooks' home with a warrant and confiscated
a computer and two external hard drives. During their investigation of the
equipment, agents found hundreds of video and images depicting child
pornography.
A forensic look at the equipment uncovered a folder labeled "special," where
they found a video in which Brooks can be heard giving directions to a young
child to perform explicit sexual acts.
Investigators later confirmed that the child was a student and PS 243 and
that the video was made on school grounds, the statement said.
Brooks will be sentenced in May.
