August 31, 2007 - Mark Starr, a former Boyle County Middle School teacher, wants his guilty plea on the state charges to be tossed out. He was sentenced on the federal charges to 30 years for child pornography.
Starr pleaded guilty in 2006 to state charges that he videotaped a middle school student while she changed clothes in a room adjacent to his office at the school in 2003 and then tried to destroy the tape before investigators obtained it.TT - Creepy picture of him at the news site.
In 2004, Starr pleaded guilty in federal court to 10 charges related to child pornography. He admitted he took pictures of the genitals of four girls between the ages of 6 and 13 while they were sleeping. Three of the girls were children of relatives and were spending the weekend at Starr's house in Danville.
