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Loudoun County School Board Stands by Assistant Principal Charged with Child Pornography in Connection with Controversial "Sexting" Incident
July 01, 2009
Topic: Virginia Legal News
The Loudon County School Board voted 7-1 this week to reimburse Ting-Yi Oei about $167,000 for the legal expenses he has incurred in fighting charges of possessing child pornography. According to the Washington Post, Oei, an assistant principal at Freedom High School in South Riding, Virginia, was charged last year over a photo he obtained in the course of investigating a sexting issue at his school.
In March 2008, Oei's principal asked him to investigate rumors that some students at the school were exchanging sexually explicit photos of a teenage girl. Oei confronted a student and that student admitted he had one photo. After the principal instructed Oei to retain a copy of the photo for the investigation, Oei asked the student to email the image to Oei's cell phone and transfer the photo to Oei's desktop computer.
The image depicted only the torso of a young women clad in underwear with her arms draped over her breasts. Loudoun County prosecutors deemed the photo child pornography and threatened Oei with criminal charges unless he resigned. When he refused to resign, they charged him with felony possession of child porn as well as with two misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for instructing the male student to send him the photo.
In March 2009, a Loudoun County judge dismissed the charges, ruling that the image did not qualify as child pornography. Oei returned to his job at the school in April 2009. The Parent Teacher Student Association organized a welcome-back breakfast for him and the school honors society decorated his office door and desk with notes of support and Christmas lights.
"He was acting in his official capacity, and the judge tossed the case out on its ear," board Chairman Robert F. DuPree Jr. said at the meeting, according to the Post. "Some of [his] reputation is going to be very, very difficult to get back. . . . At least we can make him whole again."
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