Former Teacher Sentenced to 3.5 years For Child Porn Possession

CHELMSFORD, MA – A former High School math teacher was sentenced to more than three years prison Wednesday in federal court in Boston after he pleaded guilty to receipt and possession of child pornography.

Warren Anderson, 27, of Lowell and Harvard, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 45 months in prison and five years of supervised release. In July 2019, Anderson pleaded guilty to one count each of receipt and possession of child pornography.

Anderson was a math teacher at Narraganset Regional High School at the time of his arrest and his LinkedIn profile indicates he was a substitute teacher for Lowell Public Schools, as well. He was put on leave and then fired.

Narragansett Regional High School is in Baldwinville and serves students in Templeton and Phillipston.

Anderson was interviewed in August 2018 as part of an investigation into the online trade of child pornography through the use of Kik messenger. At the time he admitted accessing sites on the dark web to obtain child pornography.

Forensic analysis of his computers showed 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.

United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling and Jason Molina, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations made the announcement Thursday.

Harvard and Templeton Police Departments helped with the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anne Paruti, Lelling’s Project Safe Childhood Coordinator and a member of the Major Crimes Unit, is prosecuting the case.