Posted on 04/28/2016 10:49:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Douglas Le, 25, was arrested at his home on suspicion of felony child enticement and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose, police said.
A teacher who allegedly posed as a female and lured juveniles to send harmful material online was arrested Tuesday in San Jose, police said.
Douglas Le, 25, was arrested at his home on suspicion of felony child enticement and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose, police said.
Le is a teacher at Gilroy High School and has been placed on paid administrative leave, Gilroy Unified School District spokeswoman Rachel Zlotziver said.
Investigators learned Le was allegedly given illicit images from juveniles under the impression they were in an online relationship with a female persona, who was later determined to be the suspect, police said.
Detectives found evidence that Le apparently persuaded the victims to send harmful matter over the Internet, according to police.
The police department's Internet Crimes Against Children/Child Exploit Detail task force conducted the investigation.The district has notified parents and families of the arrest, Zlotziver said.
Word of Le's arrest spread quickly around the Gilroy High campus.
"A really shocking moment for all the students around the school and the teachers and parents," said John Fox, a Gilroy High freshman. "Everyone should be really concerned about it."
Parents were also troubled to hear of the teacher's arrest.
"It's definitely troubling to hear something like that if the allegations are true," parent David Gutierrez said. School psychologists and counselors will be available to provide support services to students through the rest of the week, she said.
"I want to reassure parents and the community that the safety of our students remains our highest priority," district Superintendent Deborah Flores said in a statement Wednesday.
"We are working cooperatively with the San Jose Police Department to continue to ensure the safety of all students in the District as they complete their investigation into this matter," Flores said.
Le was subject to criminal background screening that included fingerprint clearance from the Department of Justice and FBI when he was hired, district officials said.
Le's LinkedIn profile shows he has worked at the high school since June 2013 and previously served as the head track and field coach.
Le graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in chemical biology and obtained his Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown University a year later, according to the profile.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call police Detective Sgt. Brian Spears at 408-537-1381. Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867.
Pausing as a woman? Who woulda thunk?!
but but but, Asians are our model minorities, /sarc.
but but but, Asians are our model minorities, /sarc.
Sounds as if he posed as a female online, and got interested juvenile males to send him pictures of themselves.
8 AM to 3 PM, it’s a man. After school hours, it’s feeling it’s feminine side.
Didn’t I see that dude at Target going in the womens restroom/
Sure is a confusing article. Who sent him pictures? male? female? what kind of pictures.
And what the heck is a chemical biology major?
Irony, the so called “cannot be racist” black people do not share that view on Asian men....
Posed as a woman? Where did they catch him- a Target bathroom?
I’m kind of wondering what is meant by “juvenile.” 17 1/2 years old? 7 years old?
What’s the context?
For those who didn’t see this- this video is very powerful and shows that trannies and perverts are ALREADY attacking women in women’s bathrooms, contrary to what the perverts o nthe left would have us beleive- Trannies are not ‘harmless confused people’- and it’s just going to get much much worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwMJAFWLtQ
the worst part is that this video is just about those who are trannies it isn’t even about the dangerous male predators who don’t identify as trannies who WILL be allowed to use women’s bathrooms
This video puts the LIE to the asinine claim that trannies will not be violent if they are ‘finally allowed to use women’s bathrooms legally’
Many claim trannies are nothing more than ‘harmless cross dressers’- this is another lie- over 50% were raped or molested as children and as a result turned to transexualism and are abusers themselves- most people who have been abused become abusers- that is a fact- even people who turn to sick demented perversions like transexualism- Trying to portray them as harmless is disingenuous and at worst dangerous- That is not to say that every transexual person is dangerous- but it IS to say transexuals are statistically much greater risk to society as are gay people who also are a group who had much higher incidents of sexual abuse as children and who turn to abuse as adults- Many homosexuals have 100’s of partners and many have committed rape and many have committed pedophilia-
After reviewing the story again, I think you are right.
All he has to do now is say that he identifies as a teenage woman. I’d bet my retirement watch that there’s a judge in California who’d buy that.
Only a juvenile male would believe that females want to see naked pictures of him.
You joke, but I suspect that is exactly where all this is heading.
Le is a Vietnamese name.
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