Lawrence Wesley Joynes guilty on the child porn charges, still being prosecuted on the abuse charges ... Lawrence Wesley Joynes (19xx Ormand Road, Dundalk, Maryland), 54, teacher at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School, Montgomery County Public Schools, Silver Spring, Maryland, "arrested ... for allegedly possessing child pornography ... now been charged with sexually abusing 15 youths" The Gazette: Silver Spring elementary teacher charged with possession of child porn (March 1 2013) Lawrence Joynes, 54, of Dundalk was arrested by Baltimore County Police Thursday on one charge of possession of child pornography ... Marinda Thomas Evans, principal of New Hampshire Estates Elementary School, ... said she has been told by police that the images were found on his home computer. Tags:
Baltimore News-Journal: Teacher Living in Baltimore County Arrested for Possession of Child Pornography (March 1 2013) Lawrence Joynes, 54, who lives on Ormand Road in Dundalk, taught music at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring. Police found child pornography a computer at his home in Dundalk.
WBAL: Teacher Held On $1 Million Bail On Child Porn Charge (March 1 2013) Baltimore County Police say an elementary school teacher [Lawrence Joynes] who lives in Dundalk has been arrested on a child pornography charge ... Police said they charged him with one count of child pornography possession for material they found on a computer in his home.
NBC Washington: Silver Spring Teacher Arrested on Child Pornography Charge: Lawrence Joynes on administrative leave from New Hampshire Estates Elementary School (March 1 2013) A local elementary school teacher was arrested after investigators allegedly found disturbing images on his computer. Lawrence Joynes, 54, of Dundalk, has been been charged with one count of possession of child pornography.
Washington Examiner: Montgomery County teacher charged with possession of child porn (March 2 2013) Baltimore County police say Lawrence Joynes, 54, of Baltimore County, has been charged because of material found on a computer in his Dundalk home ... Joynes is currently in the Baltimore County Detention Center on $1 million bail.
CBS Local Washington: Elementary School Music Teacher Charged with Sexual Abuse of 15 Students (Aug 13 2013) An elementary school music teacher in Silver Spring is facing numerous charges related to a string of sexual assaults on 14 female students that occurred between 2005 and 2013. A 15th student, who is now an adult, was reportedly victimized over a three-year period in the 1990s, police say. Lawrence Wesley Joynes, 54, assaulted the girls in his music classroom at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School and elsewhere on the grounds, police say. The girls range in age from kindergarten to second grade.
WTOP: Longtime Md. music teacher charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse (Aug 13 2013) Lawrence W. Joynes, of Dundalk, was a music teacher at New Hampshire Estates Elementary in Silver Spring for 10 years and during that time police say he abused 14 girls from 2005 to 2013 ... A 15th victim is an adult now and was the victim of what police described as unlawful sexual encounters during a three-year period in the 1990s. Police aren't saying whether she was also a student of Joynes. ... Joynes was under investigation for child pornography in Baltimore County and investigators there served search warrants at both his home in Dundalk and his classroom in Silver Spring. At both locations, investigators found videos and images of children on his computer and other digital media, police say. Among the seized evidence were videos and photographs that show the girls in Joynes' classroom as he directs them and/or assists them in making sexually suggestive gestures. The evidence also shows inappropriate touching by Joynes, Innocenti says. Montgomery County detectives were able to identify the 14 alleged victims from the seized videos and photos. The girls were Joynes' students, ranging in age from kindergarten to second grade, police say.
The Gazette: MCPS school teacher charged with sexually abusing 15 students: Lawrence Wesley Joynes was first arrested on child pornography charges (Aug 13 2013) According to a police statement released Tuesday morning, during a February 2013 investigation, the Department of Homeland Security and Baltimore County Police discovered that Joynes possessed child pornography. After searching his home and classroom, Baltimore County Police and Homeland Security officers discovered videos and images of children at both places, on his computer and other digital media. Montgomery County detectives identifed 14 students who were victims of sex abuse. The abuse included the suspect directing the victims and/or assisting the victims in imitating sexually suggestive gestures and also inappropriate touching by the suspect, Montgomery County Police Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti wrote in the release.
WUSA 9: Lawrence Wesley Joynes of Silver Spring, formerly a teacher at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School, charged with sex abuse (Aug 13 2013) In February 2013, a Homeland Security and Baltimore County Police child exploitation investigation showed [Lawrence] Joynes had child pornography in his possession. Police then searched Joynes' home and classroom where they found videos and photos of children. After examining the images police identified 14 students who they say were sex abuse victims. Police say the abuse featured Joynes "directing the victims and/or assisting the victims in imitating sexually suggestive gestures and also inappropriate touching".
WBAL TV: Music teacher charged with abusing 15 students -- Police: Lawrence Joynes abused elementary kids from 2005-2013 (Aug 13 2013) Investigators accused Lawrence Joynes, 54, of sexually abusing female students while he was teaching at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring. Montgomery County police said he was charged last week with 14 counts of sex abuse of a minor, third-degree sex offense and second-degree rape. Detectives said Joynes sexually abused the victims in his classroom between 2005 and 2013 and that some of the victims were between the ages of kindergarten and second grade. Police said they have identified at least 15 victims, one of whom is now an adult who said she was victimized over a three-year period in the 1990s. In March, Joynes was charged separately with one count of possession of child pornography after Baltimore County police said they found child porn on his home and work computers.
WBAL: Music Teacher Charged With Sexually Abusing Students (Aug 13 2013) Montgomery County Police say 54-year-old Lawrence Joynes, of Ormand Road, is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center. According to investigators Joynes sexually abused female students while a teacher at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring. Police allege that Joynes sexually abused the victims, some as young as kindergarten between 2005 and 2013 in his music classroom at the school.
Baltimore Sun: Montgomery Co. teacher from Dundalk charged with child sexual abuse (Aug 13 2013) Police in Montgomery County have since identified 15 female victims, 14 of which were [in Lawrence] Joynes' music class at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring starting in 2005 up until this year. The victims were between kindergarten and second grade. Police said one victim is an adult who was abused for three years in the 1990s. Joynes has been charged with second-degree rape and child abuse in that case. Police said Joynes inappropriately touched the girls and told them to make sexually suggestive gestures.
ABC 2 News: Music teacher accused of sexually abusing students (Aug 13 2013) Lawrence Wesley Joynes lived in Dundalk but every day he made the 40-mile commute to an elementary school in Silver Spring, where he worked as a music teacher. Police now say that's where he found his victims. Neighbors on Ormand Road in Dundalk say Joynes never got married; they knew him as a musician and a teacher who mostly kept to himself ... On Ormand Road neighbors say they’re shocked by the charges -- but looking back, they wonder whether they should be. “He was always a little different you know as far as socially,” Pappas said. “Really, really kept to himself.”
NBC Washington: Maryland Elementary School Teacher Charged With Abuse of 15 Minors -- Police: Lawrence Joynes sexually abused 14 children in his classroom between 2005 and earlier this year; 15th victim discovered during investigation (Aug 13 2013) A music teacher at a Silver Spring, Md., elementary school has been charged with sexually abusing 15 minors over a multi-year span, police said Tuesday. Montgomery County Police said 14 of the victims were kindergarten through second grade students in Lawrence Wesley Joynes' music class at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School.
Washington Post: Montgomery County teacher charged with 14 counts of sex abuse of students (Aug 13 2013) Detectives said the charges relate to the alleged abuse of 15 female victims, all in kindergarten through second grade, at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, where Joynes was a music teacher. Fourteen of the victims were students in Joynes’s music class between 2005 and 2013, police said. The 15th victim was allegedly assaulted in the 1990s and is now an adult.
Washington Post: Ex-Montgomery music teacher indicted on 39 counts of sexual abuse of girls, including rape (Feb 27 2014) A former Montgomery County music teacher was indicted Thursday on 39 criminal counts related to his alleged sexual abuse of 14 elementary school girls and rape of a middle school student during his lengthy career in the county’s public school system. Lawrence W. Joynes, 55, faces the possibility of decades in prison if convicted of all the charges, which include sexual abuse of a minor, child abuse, second-degree rape and other offenses related to sexual conduct.Joynes has been in jail since his arrest a year ago in Baltimore County for possession of child pornography. He was recently sentenced for that offense — to time already served, or about a year — and was transferred to Montgomery for prosecution on the abuse allegations. He is being held without bond.
Gazette.Net: Former Silver Spring music teacher indicted on child sex abuse charges: Joynes had previously been charged with 14 counts (Feb 28 2014) A former Montgomery County music teacher charged with sexually abusing 15 students was indicted Thursday on 39 counts tied to the alleged abuse. Lawrence W. Joynes, 55, of Dundalk, is charged with sexually abusing 14 elementary school students at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, where he taught for 10 years. Joynes is also charged with having an inappropriate and sexual relationship with a student at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring in the 1990s. The indictment includes 14 criminal counts on a new child pornography charge, four additional counts of third-degree sex offense, and an additional count of rape....Police also recovered sexually suggestive video clips of girls sucking on peppermint sticks and a man’s finger inside what appeared to be a music classroom. Some of the videos were set to music or had sexually suggestive captions. In other clips, the girls were inappropriately touched or made to touch themselves, police said in court records. According to testimony conveyed in the charging documents, Joynes described taping the videos in his classroom and said that the name of one girl was tattooed on his right shoulder.