High school science teacher, 50, accused of abusing 19 victims pleads guilty to child sex charges as it's revealed he posted video of himself performing sex on a minor online for $50 and ran an explicit Snapchat group with students
A North Carolina high school science teacher has been sentenced to up to 31 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a staggering number of child sex charges on Tuesday.
Michael Earl Kelly, 50, was arrested in February 2018 and was charged with 59 sex-related crimes against children for a string of inappropriate behavior such as having a private explicit Snapchat group with students, exposing his penis, and sending explicit videos of students to victims.
His most serious charge was having sex with a child under the age of 16. He was sentenced to 17.6 - 31.25 years in prison for the crimes including sexual exploitation of minor, indecent liberties with a student and indecent liberties with a child on Tuesday.
Alarm was first raised about Kelly, a teacher at Isaac Bear Early College High School in Wilmington, when a concerned parent found inappropriate messages between Kelly and their child.
Investigators found Kelly had 19 victims – some as young as 14-years-old and the abuse dated back to 2003 when he was a teacher at Laney High School, according to WECT. Source
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