Ex-Belton High School Teacher Indicted on Child Porn Charge

Accidentally playing porn in front of a classroom full of students is bad. Getting your computers searched afterward, turns out, is much worse.

KWTX is reporting that ex-Belton High teacher, James Edward Alleman, 46, was indicted Wednesday for possession of child pornography.

It seems the investigation started in September of 2018 after a student reported that pornography had played on a classroom projection screen.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Alleman was taken into custody on November  18th, 2018 after police found four short videos on a memory card that was confiscated during the investigation. The footage reportedly showed a young Asian girl changing clothes in a bathroom. Alleman posted a $75,000 bond and was released the same day.

Police say searches had been performed on Alleman’s laptop "for pornography in both Chinese and Japanese, using terms that translated to the English equivalent of ‘teen scandal, ‘webcam underwear teen, ‘teen video chat, ‘school girl masturbation,’ as well as other search terms".

It's perfectly normal to throw up in your mouth a little right now. We understand.

Investigators showed the four short videos to Alleman’s wife, who identified the 10-year-old girl. And, the affidavit continued, "the bathroom the child was in appeared to match a bathroom in a residence from which the Allemans had just moved". The wife told officers, "she was unaware that such videos were being taken or that there was a camera set up in the bathroom."

The girl was taken to the Child Advocacy Center of Central Texas. During an interview, she identified herself as in the footage and stated that she never knew the videos were being taken, nor did she recognize where they were filmed.