Guilty! David Paul Moe, Denver, Colorado (arrested July 2012) [child porn]

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    David Paul Moe, 45, teacher at Paddington Station Preschool, Denver, Colorado, child porn.

    9 News: Preschool teacher arrested for child porn (July 26 2012)

    Dave Moe, a 45-year-old from Denver, was arrested July 24 after federal agents, acting on information gathered online, searched his home, allegedly finding child pornography on a computer and on DVDs and CDs. Moe has taught at Paddington Station for 18 years. The pricey school, located in the Montclair neighborhood, touts having many teachers trained in the British primary method.

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    "Agents and officers learned that there was one allegation of inappropriate contact with a child approximately 10 years ago," the statement read in part. "Nothing was proven."

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    Denver Post: Denver preschool teacher busted for child porn (July 27 2012)

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested David Moe, 45, a teacher at Paddington Station on Tuesday. He appeared in U.S. District Court on Wednesday. An ICE agent in San Diego observed child porn available for downloading on another computer that led him to Moe and others, according to Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the local US Attorney's Office.
     
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    KDVR: Denver preschool teacher arrested on child porn charges (July 27 2012)

    According to affidavit filed by the Colorado district attorney’s office, David Moe, 45, has been a teacher at Paddington Station, a prestigious preschool in East Denver, for 18 years. Police served a search warrant on his home after it was determined a computer at the residence was populating a peer-to-peer downloading service with files containing child pornography. The affidavit said investigators found child pornography on Moe’s computer and on DVDs and CDs that were located at the residence.
     
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    9 News: Preschool: Teacher confessed to child porn charges (July 27 2012)

    The school provided a copy of a letter being distributed to parents Friday afternoon: "Investigators tell us Mr. Moe is under investigation for consuming child pornography that he received over the internet or through delivery from other locations," the letter read, in part. "According to the affidavit provided by Immigrations Customs and Enforcement, Mr. Moe has admitted to the accuracy of these charges."
     
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    9 News: Preschool teacher accused of porn appears in court (July 30 2012)

    Prosecutors say [David] Moe was suspected of inappropriate contact with a child 10 years ago but nothing was proven. 9NEWS has asked Paddington to provide information on the nature of that incident and what steps were taken to protect students.
     
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    KWGN: Preschool teacher arrested for child porn, parents worried (Aug 3 2012)

    One woman who didn’t want to give her name says parents have had concerns about [David] Moe for nearly a decade. “Ten years ago, Moe was on the carpet after a child said he took her to the bathroom and touched her inappropriately,” said the parent. “The school said they were going to put new policies in place to safeguard the kids, but they never did.” A spokesperson says the new policy included: only females were to change diapers and two adults would escort kids to the bathroom. Parents of students then say those policies were never put in place.
     
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    9 News: Angry parents confront Denver school over teacher's arrest (Aug 3 2012)

    Parents were told by school board members that they don't have much information about what happened when David Moe was accused of inappropriately touching a three year old girl at the school ten years ago. School leaders pledged to review the handling of the incident. A Paddington spokesperson has declined to say if the incident was ever reported to police. That allegation came to light when federal agents arrested Moe on July 24 on unrelated child pornography charges. According to court documents, Moe had 10,000 pornographic images on his computer, some of which depicted children. He allegedly told investigators that he preferred to look at images of females age four and older ... Federal investigators are combing through the images on Moe's computer and on more than 400 CDs found at his home in Denver.
     
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    Lengthy but good article, would suggest reading all of it ...

    9 News: Feds: Preschool teacher's journal details interactions with young girls (Aug 7 2012)

    Prosecutors did not suggest the journal contained descriptions of abuse, instead saying the 45-year-old kept detailed records of his physical affection such as hugs and tickles shared with dozens of female students. In the journal, a federal agent testified Moe talked of being alone with female students - in one instance - making sure the child got off his lap before her mother arrived. Selected entries of the journals, as transcribed by the prosecution, indicate Moe carefully recorded the children's reactions to his affections.
     
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    Again, I'd suggest just reading the entire article ...

    Denver Post: Journal of Paddington Station ex-teacher details contact with children (Aug 8 2012)

    The journal belonged to David Moe, 45, who taught at Paddington Station Preschool for 18 years — and now faces charges of possessing and distributing child pornography ... Excerpts from Moe's 800-page journal, which he had kept since 1997, were read in court Tuesday during a four-hour hearing in U.S. District Court on his motion to be granted bail. In several of the entries, Moe wrote about his contact with the little girls at the preschool, detailing squeezes, tickles, hugs and kisses. More than 10 years before his arrest, officials at the school did not notify law enforcement or human services about an accusation that Moe inappropriately touched a 3-year-old girl while changing her diaper. Failure to disclose the accusation is a "blatant violation" of state law, said Liz McDonough, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Human Services.

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    Moe was in the courtroom Tuesday as Special Agent Ryan Palmer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security testified that the 3-year-old girl repeatedly told her parents, "Dave touch," after returning from preschool. The child, who had recently been adopted from Romania, repeated the phrase as she pointed at both her own genitals and the genital area of a doll, said Palmer, who has spent the past six years investigating child pornography cases for Homeland Security.

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    Palmer on Tuesday also read excerpts from Moe's journal ...
    • "I couldn't keep my hands off her and it was fun," Moe wrote. He described holding one girl in his lap and then putting her down before her mother could see. He also wrote of tracking their reactions, noting that one girl did not "flinch" when he grabbed her around the waist.
    • On several occasions, Moe noted that his contact was excessive, but often listed his "love" for the girls immediately after. "I was overly affectionate with her, but I love her so much," Moe wrote in 2006. "No more of that."
     
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    Huffington Post: David Moe, Preschool Teacher Arrested On Child Porn Charges Kept A Journal Detailing Contact With Children; Released On Bond (Aug 9 2012)
    Excerpts from the journal that were read aloud in court Tuesday contained meticulously-kept records of hugs, tickles and holding some of his female students by the hips. The students' names were redacted from the entries, but prosecutors say more than 100 children were named in the 800-page journal. Attorneys however say that the journal does not depict any explicitly sexual encounters between David Moe, 45, and Paddington Station Preschool students.
     
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    Denver Post: In wake of preschool teacher's arrest, parents reach out to children (Aug 17 2012)

    Moe, who was arrested July 24, has been granted bail. However, he remains in custody while the conditions of his release are being considered. If he is released, he will be required to live with his parents and prohibited from having contact with minors and from accessing the Internet.
     
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    Legal & trial documents (hat tip: Denver Post):
     

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    KDVR: Preschool moving on after arrest of former teacher in child porn case (Aug 30 2012)

    Journalists found out what the parents of Paddington Station Preschool Children have known for two weeks: Nancy Spillane is the right person for the job. The woman who founded a prestigious school in Steamboat Springs, is now the interim head of school for a preschool trying to get past troubling times.
     
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    CBS Local Denver: Plea Bargain Apparently Reached for Former Preschool Teacher In Child Porn Case (Apr 23 2013)

    David Moe, a former preschool teacher charged with distributing, receiving and owning child pornography, has apparently reached a plea bargain agreement. Through his attorney, Lisa Moses, Moe has filed documents saying, “The parties have reached a disposition in this matter.” Moe’s lawyer is asking that all hearings be abandoned and Moe be allowed to change his plea to guilty at a hearing set for May 30.
     
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    Denver Post: Former Paddington preschool teacher files to change not-guilty plea (Apr 23 2013)

    A document filed in federal court Monday indicates former Denver preschool teacher David Moe has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors and would like to change the not-guilty plea he entered last summer ... Moe's attorney's filed a notice of disposition in U.S. District Court on Monday. The filing indicates that an agreement has been reached between prosecutors and Moe's attorneys. Moe will have an opportunity to change his plea to guilty as part of the agreement, according to the filing. The terms of the agreement are not available until after the change of plea hearing, which has been scheduled for May 30 at 2 p.m.
     
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    Huffington Post: David Moe, Former Paddington Station Preschool Teacher Makes Plea Deal (Apr 24 2013)

    Former Denver preschool teacher David Moe has apparently reached a plea agreement and filed a document saying he would like to reverse his not guilty plea ... Moe initially pleaded not guilty, but his attorneys filed a notice of disposition Monday after having reached an agreement with prosecutors. The terms of the agreement however will not be available until after the plea hearing which is scheduled for May 30.
     
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    Denver Channel: David Moe, veteran preschool teacher at Denver's Paddiington Station, pleads guilty to child porn (May 30 2013)

    Former preschool teacher David Moe, who taught at Paddington Station in Denver for 18 years, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to one count of distributing child pornography. The 45-year-old Moe faces up to 20 years when he is sentenced Sept. 10, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. In addition, Moe faces a fine of up to $250,000 as well as restitution. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
     
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    NBC News: Former Denver preschool teacher pleads guilty in horrifying child porn case (May 30 2013)

    A former Denver preschool teacher pleaded guilty Thursday to distributing child pornography from a collection that prosecutors said was one of the largest in the U.S. David Paul Moe, 46, of Denver was held without bail in U.S. District Court in Denver pending a sentencing hearing in September. Two of the three counts in the indictment were dropped as part of a plea arrangement ... Many details of the investigation remain unknown, because much of the case record is redacted, as is common in cases involving juvenile victims. But enough of it is available to make it clear that it could be one of the worst child pornography cases in U.S. history.

    [Much of the description of his child porn collection has been redacted from the public record, but this article appears to contain as good a description as has been made public regarding the extend ot the collection.]​

    Because of the deletions from the public records, it's impossible to know whether any of the children in the images were ever pupils of Moe's. But the case record reveals that Moe was accused of improperly touching a 3-year-old child at the school in 2001, an accusation that was never followed up on.
     
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    9 News: Former Paddington teacher pleads guilty to child-porn charges (May 30 2013)

    The man investigators say had a huge child-pornography collection of more than 800,000 images and 13,000 videos pleaded guilty to a federal charge as part of a plea bargain announced Thursday afternoon. Dave Moe faced one count of distribution of child porn. The other counts against him were dismissed as part of the plea agreement. He will have to register as a sex offender.

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    Prosecutors have previously testified they found a journal Moe kept that detailed interactions with young girls, though prosecutors have not said any of the entries detail sexual assaults on children. The journal, according to prosecutors, included detailed records of Moe's physical affection such as hugs and tickles shared with dozens of female students. In one previous hearing, the judge noted that while the journal included entries about Moe's frustration to attract the romantic attention of adult women, it did not contain overt sexual references to children.