Craig Rogers {BSO}
A longtime physical education teacher at Westchester Elementary School in Coral Springs was arrested Wednesday on seven felony counts of possession of child pornography, authorities said.
According to the Coral Springs Police Department Special Victims Unit, Craig Rogers, 60, used a Kik social media app account – on which he identified himself as a “pervert teacher” – to distribute multiple files depicting child sexual abuse material.
An online tip made May 22 from the National Center of Missing and Endangered Children to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force said a Kik user’s account – later identified as Rogers’ – was sharing child pornography with other users through the social platform.
A multitude of messages from different chat groups were also provided to investigators by Kik, police said.
Following Rogers’ identification as the Kik account holder, investigators learned he was employed as a Broward County Public Schools teacher and identified numerous photos on his Kik account showing his Westchester Elementary School office as well as an equipment room in the school, police said.
In an earlier arrest, in April, Rogers was charged with multiple crimes including cyberstalking after allegedly waging a harassment campaign against a Coral Springs Police officer and his family, police said.
Rogers has been employed as a teacher at Westchester Elementary School since 2003, according to BCPS records.
Westchester Elementary Principal Melissa Geraine told parents in an email Wednesday that a physical education teacher at the school had been arrested off campus by CSPD in April, without identifying Rogers as that teacher.
She said the teacher was reassigned away from the school and students pending the outcome of an investigation.
She said the same teacher was arrested Wednesday on charges related to child pornography.
“Our school administration is deeply disturbed by the allegations and is cooperating fully with law enforcement,” Geraine said.
During their investigation, detectives discovered Rogers had been renting a room at the Studio 6 Motel in Coral Springs, police said. On Wednesday, the Coral Springs Police SVU, SWAT team, and BSO’s ICAC Task Force executed a search warrant at the motel, police said.
During their search of Rogers’ room, police found several electronic devices and seized them for forensic analysis, according to detectives.
Rogers was arrested and booked into BSO’s Main Jail, where records show he was being held without bond Wednesday.
Coral Springs Police ask that anyone with information pertinent to their ongoing child porn investigation into Rogers email CSPD Special Victims Unit Detective Nicole Hildebrandt at nhildebrandt@coralsprings.gov.
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