Feds: Former CT children s museum director distributed child sexual abuse images
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The former director of a Connecticut children’s museum has been charged on an indictment with distributing images of child sexual abuse, according to federal prosecutors.
A federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment on Tuesday, charging Robert Eckert, 56, of Simsbury, with distribution of child pornography. Eckert appeared before Judge Robert A. Richardson on Thursday and pleaded not guilty.
Eckert was held pending a follow-up bond hearing, scheduled for Friday.
During Thursday’s court appearance held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic prosecutors alleged that Eckert used online platforms to distribute images of child sexual abuse and to communicate with other individuals about distributing these images.
Connecticut Teacher Sentenced To Prison For Trading Child Porn While Posing As Teenager
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He pleaded guilty in September
Police confiscated 121 photos and nine videos depicting child porn from his electronic devices
A former teacher from Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for trading more than 100 images of child pornography while posing as a teenager on the messaging app Kik.
Dylan Koerner, 29, a former music teacher at Hartford elementary school had pleaded guilty in September to soliciting, receiving and distributing child pornography, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Koerner posed as a teenage boy on the messenger app and convinced girls as young as 12 years to send nude pictures. He then traded those images with other Kik users for more child porn images, the news release said.