This is fox5 local news at 10. Right now at 10, hes sitting in isolation at this county jail. Tonight the exclusive jail house interview with the man allegedld behind a child pornography scandal that has rock Prince Georges County schools. s concerned parents confront school p leader. Der. What change are being made to protect the children. Fox ass Team Coverage begins right now. And we begin with our fox55 exclusive for the first time were hearing from the man at the center of the appalling school child porn investigationi in Prince Georges County. E ge im tony perkins and im shawn yancy. This man, did i and take you tak care way is the volunteer school aid accused of making videos of children engaged in sex acts. Last thursday one of the alleged vic i ams uncles went to the t school and spoke with the principal about his concernsabou about the suspec you care way. According to the uncle, the principal told him to circle back in a few days, but instead he went to police. On friday, Police Arrested care way. On monday they held a news conference. They revealed that as am as 12 children were involved in the videos. On tuesday, school offeringsings sent home a letter informing parents about what was going on. Then wednesday, one of the alleged victims families filed a lawsuit and for the first time Prince Georges County schoole leaders spoke publicly about the case. They also announced the schools principal had been placed on administrative leave. Fox5s Marina Maracco met exclusively with care way tonight at the prince georgesgs county department of corrections in upper marlboro, what did he have to say. O reporter we did. Rter i went in with my photographer. We went in for roughly about ano hour here. We showed up and of course when you walk in you have to leave everything we only had our ids and our jackets basically with us. We went inside. He was already waiting for us at the medical ward of the jail. He was sitting on the other side of a glass partition. Of course, a an orange jumpsuit. He was not handcuffed. He was not shackled when we showed up. Both my photographer than aintroduced ourselves. He had accepted our request to see him and then when wen saturday down with him one of my first questions was were you involved in the child pornography charges and accusations and he said, he was very candid with us and said, yes, that he did partake in these videos. He said that he believed himself to be one of the children. He was just another big kid sharing with these children that hes known for quite sometime as hes been a teachers aid at that Elementary School as well as most recently a volunteer. He told us that he never engaged in any sort of interactions with any of those children, but he says that he was privy to all these videos,s, that he was watching them as they performed these acts on camera. Now i sass that a lot of these videos were taken on the childrens cellphones and then the videos were sent to his cellphone via the social media app that we know as kik where you can remain anonymous and send pictures through that app. He says that is how he received the videos on his phone. Let me ask you, it sounds like he thought that what he was doing was okay . What was your sense . Did he understand theert graft of the charges against aga him . Does he know that he was wrong. I did ask him, i said you you understand that you are facing very serious charges. There are at least now ten felony charges and you could potentially be spending the rest your life behind bars. As soon as i said, he began to cry. He says he understands what he did was wrong, and he was sorry, but he said he neverr sexually interacted with these children. He said he was just watching. He felt as though he was one of them. Sean, ill tell you speakingou with him you dont get the sense that this is a 22 year old adult. Speaking with him it seems likes rather youre speaking with a younger child, if you will. A big question, of course, rises how, in fact was he then allowlw to actually act as a volunteerue at this school with any sort of responsibility with these children. Marina, can i ask, is he claiming that he didnt shoot any of these videos, that they e were essentially just sent to him . Is he trying to make somee differentiation there. Ffer reporter no, hes not tony. He says that he was participating as far as taking r some of these videos, even atn times directing some of thesese videos and being a part of thehe scene of this video of these videos. But he says he was never in anyn of the videos, so he was never in front of the camera, if you he says a lot of the things toot place before his eyes, but he he didnt physically participate p with these children. I will tell you that he says that this all started as fun and times. It started as hide and go seekk games or even as truth or dare. It would start innocently, he says, as kissing and then from there evolve into of course much more serious physical actions, including sexual intercourse. You would. Wou im curious, did he ever explain how he was able to get the kids by themselves and shoot these videos . So, from what i gather fromhr our interview, sean, the majority of these videos weree actually shot at the rec center. Of course youll know that thert are no teachers. The employees there are volunteers like did i and take you. So he was there many times with these children by himself as their parents were working. He actually told us that the t night that he was picked up on friday, he was at the home one of the victims and he considers the mother of one of those 10 year old children to be his mentor. He looks up to that woman. He says i just cant believeieve that this happened as i leaving her house. Obviously this is a very serious situation involving children. A lot of people very upset, concerned about this. Er do you have a sense of why hef h talked to you about this . And a talked so openly about all of this . Reporter tony, i think my sense was that he wanted to share that he considers himself to be a troubled person. He says that when he was about 10 years old, third, fourth grade he wouldnt really give me a definitive timeline or age he was raped in Elementary School. He says that yet again when he was in high l school, some High School Students attempted to remove his clothing and that he was nearly raped at due val high school. He did mention this to Police Officers. Its because of his troubled up special education classes, hes had a lot of trouble. Ble. Hes been raped. This is why he sympathized witha these children. Ldre these children saw him as another child and he was just one more part of that group. He did not see himself as an adult, if you will. He did see himself as a superior to have responsibility over them, but just one more of the group. That was kind of frank scary to see that a 22 year old man man considered himself h at the at level of a 10 year old. Marina, you said he now understands that what he did was wrong. Did he display any signs of remorse since hes now admittedd to these acts . Reporter he did, sean. He says hes sorry. We asked him, you say yourere troubled. You say you were rained when you were young. What about these children moving forward . Do you understand what this means for their lives and how theyll live likely also a troubled life. Bled he would just put his head downd and then start to cry and wouldnt it was hard for him to elaborata on that subject. He did say a couple of timesf t that he was sorry but he never went more into detail as to how this all could affect thesethes children moving forward. But it did seem like he realized that this was seer yourself s serious enough that, in fact, hes in jail now. The first thing he said to me was i cant believe im behind bars. I would never have imagined i would have found myself in this situation. Ive never been arrested before. I know this question has come ue a lot, are there background checks at prince georges counte Public Schools for anyone that works there. Yes, there are because nothing would have shown up because he has no criminal past. I certainly appreciate the candor in giving us your insighr from talking to him today. Thank you very much. We do point out of course that deand take you care way is in jail and the things that hes saying is what he said to our reporter. We dont know what the factsts said. Joining us tonight to talk a little bit more about this, an expert in forensic mental health. Jay. We thank you for being here. Just based on what youve heard right now, give me reaction toco the things that this man told t our reporter. Ter. Its a pleasure to be here with you, sean and tony. Y. Certainly based on what we just heard from marina. Ina. There are certain numbers that need to be consideration intoo consideration. Certainly a tragic situation and one of the things hes talkingkg about is his own situation of abuse. Approximately one in every fivef girls under the age of 18 and approximately one in every 20 boys under the age of 18 in thei United States is the victim of childhood sexual abuse. However, when it comes to individuals who then go onto perpetrate these inappropriaterr sexual actions that we find that only 30 percent of them have had a history of sexual aby. Its certainly not something when it comes to the trajectory of as children that they necessarily go onto commit these kinds of acts as adults. That said, its not so much a question of where the guilt falls but the mitigating factors. It seems to speaking to thehe public at this time that shouldt have been one consideration to t be able to begin the process in talking about the mitigating factor. Let me ask you, marina said whed she talked to him she sort of got a sense that he wasnt a 23 mentally. He even told her that he feltha like he was one of the kids. What is your take away from what he told her and her sense of actually seeing that. Sure, shawn yancy. S i thinkur a lot can be said abot this. Obviously further investigationh needs to beer done, particularly an evaluation of his competency. Something that was very illuminating to me is hearing from marina that he had been in special education throughout his lifetime. Me. There are am reasons why individuals are in special education courses, but certainly one thing to be able to take a look at there based on specifically his history of of abuse as well as history of being bullied and having some very negative lifetime experiences its also very aluminating that he seems to have beneficial eighted in somee way, shape or form on his own childhood, not being able to mature. Having an individual who mentally may be a child,d, however, has the body of a grown man of course in am cases can be dangerous for a variety ofiety purposes. Jay, let me just ask you one quick question. It seems odd to me that hes able to perhaps start to layout this ground work, as you said, i was aabused as a child. I was raped as a child, but then to not be able to acknowledge that what he was doing, if it was done to him it seems to me he would understand that its wrong to be dog it to others. Oh is that odd be a difference there. Not particularly, tony. Weari refer to this as a theory of mind or basically a victim empathy and oftentimes individuals who have gone through these very difficult and traumatic life circumstances, cr when it comes to them perpetrating that abuse havese difficulty identifying withdent their victims as individuals who will actually likely exactly as marina said go through some very difficult times themselves intie the future. Ure. Its certainly something wherehg we on the same page we need to take care of our children but also recognize that this kind of abuse as was noted likely was very, very difficult to be able to predict. Its simply tragic that it t happened in one of our community schools. Such a disturbing case. Jay, the founder of the Global Research for of institute foray bus. Concerned parents demand answers from the schooled syste. Well tell you what is being done to keep their kids safe. But for some of the other stories were following tonightt on fox5 and i one of metros top leaders has resigned. What wevleneabout the first casear of the sicca virusn maryland. Hey, sue, it is cold out there. It is so cold out there. Here if you thought today was cold, wait until you see the temperatures i have in the weekend forecast. For were keeping an eye on the weekend commute for the possibility of some snow showers. Ill talk about that when fox5 local news at 10 comes right back. Welcome back, so bitter coldb out there tonight. Ac we will beou able to get rid ofd the bigger winds as we goo through the overnight hours andu not as bitter of a wind chill, but temperatures might be mighty cold. A quick check of thek of temperatures and we find teens t already to the north and west including gaithersburg and hagerstown down to 18. 23 in the district. Wind chills are a little better than they were, not quite as amm Single Digits and the wind gustt are getting a little bit lighter. Even so we have a range of 5 in gaithersburg to about 20degrees in dulles and its going to stay it looks like well be heading down into the teens with only one or two exceptions. Everybody is in the teens and some of you are going to be in the low teens. Th i mentioned were keeping an eyn on friday night and heres why,y the leading edge of even colderr air comes into town tomorrow night and youll real feel iteel saturday and sunday. As the colder air is coming inng tomorrow it may produce a few snow showers and while i dontli think theres going to be a lot of snow tomorrow afternoon and evening there could be just enough to put down some slickck spots because every single flake is going to stick. Tick we want you to be aware of that possibility just not tomorrow tonight into the overnight hours. There are only a few does the fw here and there, but where you get that it could be down a tenth of an inch and make it very icy. So much so that road crews are going to be scrambling to keep up with that. Owe, yes, we need to talk aboutt next we ill have new information too share with with you a little bit later. Thank you, sue. Ou, new at 10 tonight, a big shakeup at metro. Deputy general manager trop announced his resignation. He is the First Executive to leave. In a letter since board of directors weed praised trap who started out as chief of infrastructure back in 2010. He says the executive managing officer will now take over those responsibilities until a replacement is named. The sicca virus is now in maryland. Health officials confirmed theoi first sicca case in the state today. They say the person traveled toe a country where the industry us is active. Meantime, federal healthme, officials are working on ways ts keep the virus under control. Sarah simmons joins us with the latest. Reporter the center for diseases is around the country. Ntry people return from trips looking to see if they have an infection that could put a baby at risk. Lets talk about the sicca case announced today in m. We dont know a lot of the details. State Health Officials would only say the virus was contracted by someone whoeone traveled back from a country in central america. Ame doctors spoke with reporters today adamant the sicca vie us e is not something to panic about. This was an event that was expected to occur as travelvel related cases have been reported in several other states. I want to again make it abundant clear that this disease itse]lf is a mild disease, mostly asymptomatic and we dont havet grave concern about that. Hat. The concern is the potential transmission to pregnant woman. N the sicca virus is causing an abnormal small head which could indicate underlying brain damage. The cdc is urging those who are pregnant or trying to becomeome pregnant not to travel to sicca effected areas, but if women have already traveled to those areas they should be tested for sicca between two weeks and 12 weeks after their return. Urn. The cdc doesnt expect a widespread outside here in the us, but puerto rico is vulnerable. Herself theyre asking for congress for 1. 8 bill to help in mosquito eradication and to popely help develop a vaccine. The suspected drunk driver accused of hitting and killingnd Police Officer noaa has turned himself in. He was indicted on several charges including manslaughter. Officer lee oat a was killed ine december while walking back too his crewser during a trafficffic stop. Thats when Authorities Say reloose could he hid him. He had been arrested twice before for dwi. Fireworks in milwaukee, Hillary Clinton and sanders scared off in a debate. Do you recognize this guy, albert einstein, one of his 100 year old series was proven. Huge news in the science world today. We headed out to the space museum and find out more bit and break it down for you. At least were going to try. Well have that coming up. Screws screws go ahead, tony, work it. I remember this well. This is our good science space music. Can did you hear about the black holes collided in outer space . It sounds like a joke. It is not. Scientists are ecstatic about this, but am of us are wondering what does it all mean. It could change the way we think about the universe. Fox5s Lauren Demarco is here to break reporter when you throw a rock in to a pond you see the water ripple, its a similar idea. Imagine way out in space two black holes merged. Erge it caused a ripple effect, but the raves created were gravitational wave. They are warping space and time. Back to the future fans, the event impacted the space time continuum. Doc brown was onto something as dr. David dworkin with the national air and space museum explains scientists have now proven the last major prediction of albert einsteins theory of relativity. We think of reality, as we call it a space time continuumnm and youve heard about that t before. That is present back to the future. Absolutely. They took it from einstein. E on september 14, two massive labs called laser in from meterm Gravitational Waves. It the waves were created 1. 3 bill years ago when far, far away two black holes merged and those waves just now reached earth. Scientist converted the Gravitational Waves to soundo waves so we can get a better feel for it you a. The waves caused a slight disruption in space and time. The fact that the twin labs, one in louisiana and one in washington both detected these waves were keenan it provided detection al information. When i first heard that, i didnt believe it. Dnt i said, no, thats too good tood be true. E. Its one thing to sense it and thats fabulous. They had good enough data to say its in t