Coen Potts
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(06/02/08 - Initial BBT Report)
Coen C. Potts, 37, a former elementary art teacher at Pauline South Intermediate School and Pauline Central Primary School in the Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 in Kansas has according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
In his plea, Potts admitted that investigators found thousands of images of child pornography on a computer in his apartment. He obtained most of the images by joining groups on the Internet for collectors and distributors of child pornography.
According to court records, Potts became the subject of an investigation in September 2006 when investigators learned that he had told a woman he met through a telephone dating service that he would like to have children with her that he could “deflower.” When he met the woman in person, he showed her images of child pornography. He later told her he had been interested in photos of that kind for a long time and he had been “unsuccessful with women virtually my whole life.”
Sentencing is set Sept. 8, 2008.
Potts faces a penalty of not less than five years and not more than 20 years and a fine up to $250,000 on the charge of receiving pornography, and a maximum penalty of 10 years and a fine up to $250,000 on the possession charge.
09/08/08 - Sentencing
Coen Potts has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison as the result of his guilty plea to charges of possessing thousands of images of child pornography.
U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson trimmed a year off the recommended sentenced agreed to by Potts’ defense attorney and prosecutors as part of a plea deal.
Judge Robinson said that “significant jail time” was required of Potts and that she couldn’t forget about the children victimized in the photos and videos even if Potts hadn’t committed those acts. Consumers of child pornography, she said, help create a demand for such harmful actions.
References:
Elementary art teacher sentenced to prison (09/08/08)
FORMER TOPEKA ART TEACHER PLEADS GUILTY TO CHILD PORN CHARGES (06/02/08)
Fired Pauline art teacher pleads guilty (06/02/08)
Former teacher indicted on child porn charges (03/11/08)
Teacher fired but not charged in drug case (11/22/06)
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June 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
HE WAS my teacher for 2 and half years at pauline south … that kinda disturbing to me but its w.e
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