Farmingham, MASSACHUSETTS

A teaching assistant is someone who wants to be around children.

Nov 9, 2007 - Jesse Beckley, 26, an assistant special education teacher at the Mary E. Stapleton Elementary School, was arrested for child pornography.

He is charged with
two counts of the illegal possession of child pornography with the intent to disseminate,
one count of dissemination of child pornography,
two counts of the illegal possession of obscene matter with the intent to disseminate,
one count of dissemination of obscene matter and
two counts of the illegal possession of visual material of a child depicted in sexual conduct.

Investigators traced the peer to peer activity to Beckley's computer. When police served the warrant, Beckley admitted he had child pornography. During the search, police discovered that he was in the midst of both downloading new child pornography to his computer and uploading more child pornography to the Peer-to-Peer network.

A pre-trial conference is scheduled for Nov 30.