Glendora Teacher’s Arrest Part of International Crackdown on Child Exploitation

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 255 people were arrested as part of an international child exploitation investigation, including John David Boyle, a 49-year-old Royal Oak Middle School teacher from Glendora, Calif.

There were 61 child victims indentified as part of Operation iGuardian, the massive five-week sting that ended June 30.  Twenty people were charged with online sexual enticement of a minor, while the rest were charged with child pornography production and distribution, traveling with the intent to have sex with a minor and rape.

Agents say they made three high-profiled arrests during the investigation, including Boyle who recently pled not guilty to several sexual offenses involving minors, which included sexual molestation; Jimmy Caraballo-Colon, 25, a former high school cheerleading coach from Puerto Rico; and Eduardo Arturo Romero Barrios, 33, a Mexican national.

"Children and parents need to understand that not everyone online is who they say they are," ICE Director John Morton said in a press release. "Child abusers prowl social media looking for opportunities to force young people into sexual exploitation through guile, deceit, and extortion."