A private school employee in South Florida has been arrested after being accused of possessing child sexual abuse material he culled from minors whom he allegedly enticed online to send him the prurient photos and videos.
Federal agents arrested Evan Michael Sands, 26, a “staffer” at the Randazzo School in Coconut Creek just north of Fort Lauderdale on multiple charges after he allegedly used the chat platform Discord and the gaming site Roblox to get the sexually explicit material.
A federal criminal complaint, reported by WPLG, indicated the investigation began with a tip from the messaging platform Discord.
According to the TV news outlet:
That tip, sent to the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children and forwarded to the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in December, pertained to two child sexual abuse videos shared through Discord depicting girls who appeared to be 6 years
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