(10/20/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Jerry L. Foster, 59, a teaching assistant at Laurel Hill, a group home for boys in West Orange County, Florida, has reportedly been arrested on allegations of sending sexually explicit messages to a 15 year old girl via a chat room, email and voice mail.
Foster was arrested at his home and charged with one count each of possessing child pornography and using a computer for a prohibited purpose.
It is alleged that Foster posed as a 20-year-old male and sent the teenage girl sexually explicit messages in a chat room, e-mails and also to her cell phone.
Foster came to the attention of authorities when the girl’s mother informed police that she heard inappropriate voice mails from an older man on her daughter’s cell phone.
During the course of their investigation, detectives found graphic chat room logs Foster wrote to the girl, and set up a sting posing as the girl and communicating with Foster, who allegedly sent more sexual messages via a chat room.
Oviedo police say that when questioned, Foster admitted to the alleged crimes.
Following his arrest Foster was booked into the Seminole County Jail, held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
10/21/09 – Initial Court Appearance
Today, Jerry Foster made an initial court appearance before Seminole County Judge Jerri Collins who held that Foster’s bail should remain $100,000.
Foster remains jailed in lieu of bail.
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I Lived at Laurel Hills and this is a big deal to hear WOW !!!!!!!!! OMG
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