(9/05/07 - Initial BBT Report)
Allen Julier, 54, of Carmel, New York, an art teacher at Scarsdale High School, in Scarsdale, New York has been charged in federal court with possessing child pornography.
Julier was arrested yesterday at his home by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This morning he was officially charged in federal court in White Plains, New York with one count of possession of child pornography on his home computer.
Reportedly, federal agents found more than 100 images and 10 videos of child pornography on Julier’s computer equipment.
Following his court hearing Julier was released on $50,000 bond but ordered into home confinement with electronic monitoring.
A single federal count of possession of child pornography carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Julier, who has been a teacher at Scarsdale High School since 1986, has been placed on administrative leave by the school system.
2/02/08 - Guilty Plea
Allen Julier pled guilty in US District court in White Plains to possession of child pornography.
Julier faces up to 10 years in federal prison when sentenced in May.
05/02/08 - Sentencing
Allen Julier has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison.
Julier’s lawyer asked that Julier be sentenced to probation rather than prison however the judge said that the seriousness of Julier’s crime and the fact that he downloaded the pornography for two years warranted a prison sentence.
References:
Former Scarsdale teacher gets 51 months in prison in child porn case (05/02/08)
Scarsdale teacher pleads guilty in child-pornography case (2/02/08)
Former high school teacher pleads guilty to possession of kiddie porn (2/02/08)
Top NY school’s teacher had child porn on home computer, feds say (9/05/07)
Scarsdale H.S. teacher accused of possessing child porn (9/05/07)
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September 12th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
In almost all cases I assume any person being arrested for possessing child pornography to be guilty until proven innocent, but this case is different. Unlike a former Scarsdale 2nd grade Fox Meadow Elementary School teacher who was arrested for corresponding online with an undercover police officer pretending to be a child, Mr. Julier was not and should not be treated as if he were a child predator. Even reporters who browsed websites and downloaded child pornography have been arrested for exactly the same acts as Mr. Julier, as the federal agents claimed in their criminal complaint.
I was a Scarsdale High School student between 1991 and 1995, and I first got to know Mr. Julier when I worked on my mother’s car in 1992. Mr. Julier has been the High School Auto Shop teacher for over twenty years, and he taught my older brother Auto Mechanics as well. Even after I graduated Scarsdale High School (he attended my High School graduation party) I remained in contact with Mr. Julier, speaking with him over the phone about every six to twelve months. Mr. Julier was one of my personal references for my college application and (I recall) a professional reference as well.
Mr. Julier was the teacher I was closest to in High School, and (starting when I was 15 years old) I spent hundreds of hours during and after school with him (much of the time alone) inside the Auto Shop with him working on cars, including working by his side underneath a car. Not once did Mr. Julier express any physical or verbal gesture or contact indicating interest in me when I was a minor, and I never heard gossip from students about Mr. Julier making any inappropriate physical or verbal gestures to other students. On occasion, Mr. Julier offered to drive me home from school in his car, and he never made any physical or verbal gestures then.
It saddens me that Mr. Julier’s two decades of personal dedication to teaching high school students auto mechanics, photography, architectural drawing, ceramics, and other classes, along with helping out Scarsdale High School students and fellow staff with car-emergencies, will likely be tarnished by this arrest. Based on my personal knowledge of Mr. Julier as a person, I was in shock and could not believe that Mr. Julier was arrested for these types of actions.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Omfg he was my freshman media arts teacher… I looked up to him