A fourth-grade teacher in Alexandria was been indicted on child pornography charges, a day after an assistant principal at a Fauquier County elementary school was arrested in a separate child pornography case.
John Adams Elementary School dual-language teacher Justin Coleman, 35, was indicted on charges of producing child pornography, attempting to produce child pornography, receiving child pornography and possessing modified child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria.
He was arrested in the case in April. Prosecutors allege that he created videos of young girls engaging in sexually explicit conduct and of trying to produce child pornography of young girls — including two students — who were unaware of what he was doing at summer camp in Italy last year.
Coleman is also accused of adapting existing pornographic images to depict former female students from Japan and Alexandria engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
In a separate federal child pornography case, 29-year-old Joshua Myers, an assistant principal at Greenville Elementary School, was arrested on Wednesday on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.
Prosecutors say he downloaded and shared child pornography, including a video of a woman sexually abusing a 2-year-old boy. He also allegedly told an undercover agent in an online chat that he had traveled to California to have sex with a child and had engaged in sexual contact with children who were between the ages of 9 and 14, according to court records.
