Bad Bad Teacher

Paul Held, 69, a retired teacher who prior to retirement in 2003 taught at Bedford Middle School, in Westport, Connecticut has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to receiving child pornography.

Held came to attention of authorities in August 2005 when he left a CD containing child pornography in a laptop computer which he borrowed and returned to a neighbor.

When investigators searched Held’s residence they seized six computers, three external hard drives and over 1,000 CD’s all of which allegedly contained child pornography. Held’s child pornography collection was alleged to contain between 3 and 4 million images classified as child pornography, some of the images were of children as young as 2 years old. Investigators said that Held also possessed numerous magazines, photos and VHS tapes containing child pornography.

In March of this year Held pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography.

In addition to serving ten years in federal prison, Held was also ordered to pay a $30,000 fine, register as a sex offender when released from prison, undergo a lifetime of supervised release and is prohibited from having contact with children under age 18 without the supervision of an adult who is familiar with his criminal history

References:

Former teacher sentenced to prison for collecting child porn (8/30/07)

Ex-Teacher Gets 10 Years For Enormous Child Porn Collection (8/30/07)

Former teacher sentenced to prison for collecting child porn (8/30/07)

Background:

Former middle school teacher held on porn charges (8/05/2005)

Former Bedford Teacher Ordered Jailed (8/05/2005)

Former Westport Teacher Pleads Guilty on Child Porn Charges (3/26/07)

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