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| Former Maryland elementary school aide sentenced to 75 years for child sex abuse | |
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| A former teaching assistant who admitted that he instructed children to perform sex acts on the campus of a Maryland elementary school and recorded them was sentenced to 75 years in federal prison Monday morning. | |
| Deonte Carraway, 23, of Glenarden, pleaded guilty in January to 15 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography. | |
| In U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Carraway said he was ashamed of his actions. | |
| “I'm not the monster that people are portraying me to be,” Carraway said. | |
| The plea in federal court involves 12 children between ages 9 and 13, but the wide-ranging sex abuse investigation involves at least twice as many children, according to police and prosecutors. | The plea in federal court involves 12 children between ages 9 and 13, but the wide-ranging sex abuse investigation involves at least twice as many children, according to police and prosecutors. |
| “There's just no way, Mr. Carraway, to restate the magnitude and the enormity of the harm you caused,” U.S. District Court Judge Deborah K. Chasanow said before imposing the sentence. “You knew it was wrong in some sense and yet you persisted.” | |
| Carraway also faces local charges in Prince George’s County Circuit Court, where a grand jury indicted him on 270 counts of sex abuse and other related charges. | Carraway also faces local charges in Prince George’s County Circuit Court, where a grand jury indicted him on 270 counts of sex abuse and other related charges. |
| All told, police said Carraway abused or recorded at least 23 children performing sex acts in a case that rattled Prince George’s, where Carraway worked at Judge Sylvania W. Woods Elementary School in Glenarden. | All told, police said Carraway abused or recorded at least 23 children performing sex acts in a case that rattled Prince George’s, where Carraway worked at Judge Sylvania W. Woods Elementary School in Glenarden. |
| [Child-porn suspect ‘always had six or seven kids around. It’s a little strange.’] | [Child-porn suspect ‘always had six or seven kids around. It’s a little strange.’] |
| Carraway handed out cellphones to children and communicated with them through an anonymous social-messaging app, police said. He instructed them to record themselves and each other in instances when he was not there to film them, with some of the abuse occurring in private homes, at a municipal pool, in the Glenarden municipal center and in the band room of the school, police and prosecutors said. | Carraway handed out cellphones to children and communicated with them through an anonymous social-messaging app, police said. He instructed them to record themselves and each other in instances when he was not there to film them, with some of the abuse occurring in private homes, at a municipal pool, in the Glenarden municipal center and in the band room of the school, police and prosecutors said. |
| “Carraway exercised supervisory care and control over his victims through his roles as a Dedicated Assistant [at the elementary school] and choir director by gaining the trust of parents who entrusted their children to Carraway’s care in their residences,” according to his federal plea agreement. | “Carraway exercised supervisory care and control over his victims through his roles as a Dedicated Assistant [at the elementary school] and choir director by gaining the trust of parents who entrusted their children to Carraway’s care in their residences,” according to his federal plea agreement. |
| [For years, Pr. George’s didn’t strengthen school sex-abuse policies] | [For years, Pr. George’s didn’t strengthen school sex-abuse policies] |
| Carraway admitted to using a cellphone to record children performing sex acts on one another or him performing sex acts with them, according to the plea agreement. | Carraway admitted to using a cellphone to record children performing sex acts on one another or him performing sex acts with them, according to the plea agreement. |
| Carraway also admitted to creating a group called the AKA Club and told the children that if they wanted to join, they had to send images of themselves, according to the plea agreement. | Carraway also admitted to creating a group called the AKA Club and told the children that if they wanted to join, they had to send images of themselves, according to the plea agreement. |
| In one incident inside the band room of the elementary school, Carraway is heard on video instructing a boy and girl on video to perform explicit acts, federal prosecutors said. In another incident, prosecutors said, Carraway took advantage of a special-needs child. | In one incident inside the band room of the elementary school, Carraway is heard on video instructing a boy and girl on video to perform explicit acts, federal prosecutors said. In another incident, prosecutors said, Carraway took advantage of a special-needs child. |
| Police discovered the abuse after an uncle checking a student’s cellphone discovered inappropriate photos and contacted authorities. | Police discovered the abuse after an uncle checking a student’s cellphone discovered inappropriate photos and contacted authorities. |
| [Former Prince George’s school volunteer indicted on 270 counts in child porn case] | [Former Prince George’s school volunteer indicted on 270 counts in child porn case] |
| The arrest of Carraway in February 2016 enraged the community at Judge Sylvania W. Woods, with parents questioning how Carraway was allowed to be unsupervised with the children long enough to film them on campus during the school day. The school system launched a task force after his arrest to review how it handles reports of child sex abuse. The task force recommended sweeping changes to the school system’s policies to keep students safer. | The arrest of Carraway in February 2016 enraged the community at Judge Sylvania W. Woods, with parents questioning how Carraway was allowed to be unsupervised with the children long enough to film them on campus during the school day. The school system launched a task force after his arrest to review how it handles reports of child sex abuse. The task force recommended sweeping changes to the school system’s policies to keep students safer. |
| Carraway’s trial in Prince George’s County Circuit Court is pending, as are at least nine civil suits and one class-action lawsuit filed by families of the children involved against Carraway, the school system and the city of Glenarden. | Carraway’s trial in Prince George’s County Circuit Court is pending, as are at least nine civil suits and one class-action lawsuit filed by families of the children involved against Carraway, the school system and the city of Glenarden. |