(03/28/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
John Harvey Watson, 61, a retired Marine Colonel and Reserve Officers Training Corps program teacher at Ribault High School in Jacksonville, Florida has been arrested in a child-pornography investigation.
Watson is reportedly charged with five counts of possession of child pornography.
Reportedly, Watson came to the attention of authorities when officers from the Florida Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit allegedly traced images of child porn back to his computer.
Investigators seized a personal desktop computer, an external hard drive, a thumbdrive and several CD-ROM discs from Watson’s home.
A press release from the Florida Attorney General’s Office indicated that investigators discovered the alleged child pornography on Watson’s computer equipment and that most of the girls depicted in the images were of middle school and high school age.
Reportedly, Watson made an initial court appearance on Saturday morning and was being held in the Duval County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond.
Allegedly Watson admitted to detectives that he downloaded and viewed pornographic movies on his computer and reportedly told investigators, “He knew it was illegal, and did it anyway.”
The school system reportedly has placed Watson in a non-teaching position with the school system pending the outcome of the case.
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Colonel watson was a good man no mater wat any one says yea he did some (Expletive deleted by site moderator) and it was wrong but he was a marine and because of him iam a marine
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Hey colonel i just have to ask a question why?what made u do it i mean u seem like a nice guy. you suprise me big time i mean i known dont known all i known is good luck to. i known it must be hard on yor familly please dont ever do it again when ever u get ok. u is a bad bad bad bad man.think how you grandkida fee. now they can’t see their grandfatheand on the computer it said no bail so how can your wife bail u out.i just asking please tell me. well i gonnta go so by and good luck.
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Sick bastard