Crime & Safety

High School Teacher Charged With Receiving, Possessing Child Porn

Investigators said they found child porn, including videos of girls younger than 5 being sexually assaulted.

TEMPLETON, MA—A Narraganset School District high school math teacher was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with receipt and possession of child pornography, the U.S Attorney's Office announced.

Warren Anderson, 26, of Lowell and Harvard, was charged with one count each of receipt and possession of child pornography. Anderson appeared before a judge Tuesday and was ordered to be detained until a hearing on Monday, Aug. 27.

According to court records, authorities interviewed Anderson, who was suspected of online trading of child pornography through the use of a Kik messenger. They said he admitted accessing websites on the dark web to obtain child pornography.

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Investigators said they found child porn, including a video of an adult male repeatedly sexually assaulting a naked four-year-old girl and an image of a child between three and five being sexually assaulted by an adult male.

If convicted, Anderson could get up to 20 years in prison.

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