Assumed Room Temperature Martin Goldberg, Essex, England, United Kingdom (suicide Sept 2014) ["covertly filmed children"]

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    Martin Goldberg, 46, teacher at Thorpe Hall School, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, Great Wakering, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, United Kingdom, "covertly filmed children"

    Police alerted two years ago over Essex teacher who had indecent images

    Scores of indecent images of boys aged nine to 12 were found at the home of Martin Goldberg, 46, a maths teacher at Thorpe Hall school in Southend, who took his own life this month after being visited by detectives. Goldberg used a camera hidden in a bag to record 1,500 videos and images of partially naked boys from the year 2000 onwards, Essex police said. It emerged that officers only began investigating Goldberg on 9 September, despite receiving intelligence from Canadian police in July 2012 that the teacher had purchased explicit footage of teenage boys over the internet.

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    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/30/police-essex-teacher-indecent-images-martin-goldberg


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    Teacher worked for two years after failure to act on abuse tip-off

    A deputy headteacher suspected of secretly recording pupils undressing, continued working for more than two years after police twice failed to act on intelligence that he had bought suspected indecent images online, it has emerged. Martin Goldberg, 46, was found dead the day after he was spoken to by Essex police more than two years after Canadian police told their British counterparts that he had bought images that may have included naked teenage boys.


    The intelligence was withheld for 16 months by the national police body charged with child protection before it was passed to Essex police. It emerged that the local force then failed to approach Goldberg for another nine months until they visited him at his home in Shoeburyness on 10 September.

    He was not arrested because of a lack of evidence but is thought to have killed himself the following day. A trawl of the computers owned by Goldberg – who worked at Thorpe Hall School in Southend – revealed that he recorded images of children at the school and other locations using a hidden camera. These pictures are believed to date back to 2000 and feature boys aged between nine and 12.

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    Teacher 'may have been low risk'

    Essex Police began an investigation into allegations that Martin Goldberg, 46, who worked at Thorpe Hall School, in Southend, had bought material online which may have included images of naked teenage boys. He was found dead the day after they spoke to him at his home in Shoeburyness, where he lived alone. After his computer was seized, officers discovered hundreds of indecent images. It has since emerged that Essex Police had been alerted to the concerns about Goldberg, along with 34 other suspected paedophiles, nine months earlier, as part of Canadian police's Operation Spade, but did not act.

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    It is thought that he had taken images of children at the school and other locations using a hidden camera. These pictures are believed to date back to 2000 and feature boys aged between nine and 12. Essex Police were originally informed of concerns about Goldberg after police in Toronto, Canada, contacted them in November 2013 with information suggesting that Goldberg had bought videos of naked boys several years ago.

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    http://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/national/teacher-may-have-been-low-risk-1-6871083
     
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