John McNair Arrested
Posted by: Webmaster in Elementary Schools, Florida, ME-CP, Middle SchoolsJohn McNair, 59, a former science teacher at Belleview Middle School and a former substitute teacher at Jim Allen Elementary School, both in Escambia County, Florida has been arrested on federal child pornography charges and also charges alleging the possession of obscene materials.
McNair came to the attention of authorities owing to crank/threatening phone calls that were allegedly traced to McNair’s residence. Calls during which the caller threatens to molest a grandchild if you hang up.
When FBI agents searched McNair’s home they allegedly found on his computer 160,000 pornographic images, three thousand images printed out mostly of children, 100 nude Barbie dolls, children’s underwear and in woods behind McNair’s house they discovered a “bunker” and inside it a little girl’s dollhouse.
Following his arrest McNair is being held in the Escambia County Jail.
Although McNair has no arrest records for sex crimes, authorities fear there are victims and are asking anyone with information call the FBI at (850) 432-3476.
McNair’s fiancee, Frances Hinely, 58, has been suspended with pay from her job as technology coordinator at Jim Allen Elementary School. A spokesperson for the school system said the district is investigating the extent of her knowledge of the events that led up to the arrest of her fiancee.
Earlier this week at a court hearing Hinely testified that she knew McNair had a cache of pornography on his computer and in his home, but had no clue that any of the images included children.
References:
Former teacher arrested on sex charges (8/29/07)
Former Teacher Facing Child Porn Charges (8/30/07)
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