A former North Texas preschool teacher will be going to prison for quite a while.
Former Dallas Hockaday School teacher, Jason Baldwin, 29, was sentenced to 20 years after he admitted that he used Kik - an encrypted messaging app popular among teens, to buy links to child pornography from another user.
According to court documents, the investigation into Baldwin began after FBI agents executed a federal search warrant at the home of a convicted sex offender in Philadelphia. A search of the offender’s phone revealed that he routinely used Kik to solicit payment for links to child pornography. One of the accounts with which the offender communicated traced back to Baldwin.
On October 29, Baldwin messaged the sex offender about purchasing child pornography. The offender shared a link to a “preview” folder and indicated a cost for the complete file set. Baldwin sent the money through PayPal and received links to the files a few minutes later.
Baldwin admitted that he had hundreds of sexually explicit images and videos of children that he had been storing for eight years.
Baldwin will report to prison in April.
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