(04/11/08 – Initial BBT Report)
Tracy Meadows, a former band teacher at Piggott High School in Piggott, Arkansas has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
Meadows of Jonesboro, AR pleaded guilty last year to the federal count and was sentenced Thursday.
Meadows, who had worked at the school for over 20 years, was arrested in January 2006 after he sent child pornography to an undercover FBI agent in Buffalo, N.Y.
When federal agents seized Meadows’ computer they found over 3,700 images of children engaging in sexually explicit behavior.
In addition to the prison sentence, Meadows will be under supervised probation for 10 years, must register as a sex offender and will be prohibited from contact with children.
References:
Former Jonesboro, Arkansas Teacher Gets 18-Year Sentence for Child Porn (04/11/08)
Former Band Director Sentenced (04/10/08)
That is so funny! The “huge porn fetish” was a rumor that started as a joke, and the “misappropriate behavior” was walking up by a student in health class who was getting her foot wrapped in a demonstration and tickling it–in front of 30 people and several adults! He was clearly railroaded. Get the facts.
I notice they do not mention Meadows was also the Technology Director? (basically, the school’s network admin) at the time he was arrested. Just before news of the arrest broke, Meadow’s resigned for “Health Reasons”.
They should have nabbed the then-superintendent at that school while they were at it – MBE has a huge pron fetish and was accused of misappropriate behavior with at least one young female student at Piggott, where Meadows used to teach.
I he had been a woman and slept with them instead of having pictures, he would’ve gotten a slap wrist and made it home by dinner time.