On Friday, a teacher from South California primary school was sentenced to four years in prison for downloading hundreds of videos depicting sexual abuse, including clips involving infants, said federal prosecutors.
Steven Pilar, 47, pleaded guilty of possession of juvenile pornography at the end of last year. Prosecutors said Pilar, once a fifth year teacher in the Unified School District of Hacienda La Puente in the San Gabriel Valley, downloaded more than 400 videos in his home in Victorville who showed children engaging in sexual behavior.
Many videos and images downloaded by Pilar have shown that minors under the age of 12 have engaged in sadistic behavior, and sexual abuse of a “baby and toddler”, according to a press release published on Friday by the American prosecutor’s office in Los Angeles.
“His actions have caused direct and important damage to the victims in this case, and his offense is aggravated by the fact that he taught young children at the time,” the prosecutors wrote during a memorandum of determining the sentence deposited in court.
Pilar was also ordered to pay $ 115,000 in return for his victims. He taught the Puente at the Baldwin Academy at the Baldwin Academy, according to San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
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