Mar 29, 2007 - John Creech, 58, Collin County Community College professor fired after child pornography was found on his work computer has been indicted for raping a 9-year-old girl.
He was indicted by a grand jury on charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child and possession of child pornography. He denies the charges and calls them "absolutely false." In response to the pornography charge, Mr. Creech previously told police that hundreds of sexual images of children on his computer were research for a human sexuality course.
I had some images on my computer at work that some people might find disturbing outside the context of the human sexuality class," Creech said.A technician found the images on the computer in August and reported it to police. Creech was fired. He appealed and lost, despite Creech's attorney's assertion that "Administrators failed to recognize, Mr. Stewart said, that the images didn't show children but adults who looked younger than they were."
But according to the arrest warrant affidavit, the college's president, Dr. Cary Israel, told the investigating officer Creech was not performing any authorized research.
Timothy Brightman, an attorney who was representing the college, disputed Mr. Stewart's assertion that the people in the images weren't children.The sexual assault investigation began around the same time when The girl, a daughter of one of Mr. Creech's family friends, went to the Collin County Children's Advocacy Center. Capt. Flores said the girl described how Mr. Creech had sex with her more than once.
"This is not simple research on child pornography," Mr. Brightman said. "This is hard-core child pornography. These were girls younger than my 12-year-old daughter engaged in this despicable act."
Full Name: John Preston Creech
