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Phoenix teacher arrested over alleged child abuse material

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 15 Oct, 02:02 · Archive

A third-grade teacher in Phoenix has been arrested on federal charges of distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material.

Gabriel Chacon, a third-grade teacher at Encanto Elementary School in Phoenix, was arrested on federal charges of distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material involving a minor under age 12. He was in his third year teaching when arrested. Court documents detail an encrypted group chat on a social media platform with end-to-end encryption that was 'dedicated to the access and dissemination of child pornography with a focus on babies and infants'. An undercover Australian law enforcement officer discovered Chacon in the group and began communicating with him one-on-one.

According to court records, Chacon wrote in the group chat: 'Hey friends, let's say hypothetically you were a teacher and you had three hours to kill alone in your classroom after school, what would you do?' The message was timestamped for when parent-teacher conferences were happening at Encanto in early October. When communicating with the undercover officer, Chacon said 'hypothetically speaking' that he was a teacher and wrote: 'It's a great gig for brothers like us.'

Chacon told the FBI the activity was a 'fantasy'. District leaders met with parents on Wednesday night at the school to discuss the allegations against him.

Phoenix teacher arrested over alleged child abuse material
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