“There were no real people involved and it was just in his head.”UPDATE 3/17/15 The educator chorus grows: Pornography Belongs in Classroom, More Experts Say
-- Kirkland, Washington police report
For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:
Pedophilia NOT a Crime, Says Obama-supporting Professor
Homosexual Predator, Honored by President Obama, Arrested
Illinois Homosexual Teacher Arrested on Child Porn
Gay Pedophile Teacher Defended by Michigan School
Homosexual Teacher Sexting Boy Resigns, Media Silent
Homosexual Teacher Jailed: Paying Boys to Sext Him
Most Americans Say Gay Men Untrustworthy with Boys
UPDATE 11/2/14: Drama-teaching Gay Sex Offenders: California Trend
-- From "Police: 72-year-old substitute teacher arrested for possession of child porn" posted at KIRO-TV7 (Seattle, WA) 10/16/14
Kirkland police said the man dropped off his computer be repaired at a Kirkland repair center. A computer technician found what they believed to be photos of child pornography on the computer’s hard drive.
Police identified the suspect as Kurtis Kasner, who is a substitute teacher for the Northshore School District.
Kasner was arrested in the 19400 block of 194th Avenue in Woodinville before 4 p.m.
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From "Northshore substitute teacher arrested for child porn" posted at KING-TV5 (Seattle, WA) 10/16/14
The Northshore School District was notified of the teacher's arrest Thursday. A spokesperson for the district said the suspect has been a district-wide substitute since 2000. Northshore will no longer use his services.
The spokesperson said they hadn't received any reports of questionable conduct by the teacher or reports of incidents with students.
The Kirkland PD Investigation Division and Homeland Security Investigations are handling the case.
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From "Substitute teacher arrested for child porn: ‘I’ve always been fascinated by images of children’" by Lynsi Burton, Seattle Post-Intelligencer 10/16/14
The man teaches elementary-aged children in the Northshore School District, which covers portions of north King County and south Snohomish County, including Bothell. He told police that, even through a 45-year teaching career, he’d been fascinated with child porn his whole life.
The man told police he would never touch or take photos of a child – he only “used his imagination,” reports say - but sought pornographic images of 10- to 15-year-old children by entering “incest” into a search engine, Kirkland police records say.
The man also admitted that he has “always been fascinated by images of children,” adding that he thought it was a “victimless crime” because there were “no real people involved,” according to reports.
Furthermore, he confessed that in 1976 he touched the genitals of a sleeping 15-year-old boy he was mentoring as part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. He also added that around 1979, a boy between ages 11 and 15 “came on to him” and he allowed the boy to sexually gratify him. He said he was “pretty sure” that was the last time he touched a child.
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From "Northshore teacher arrested after child porn found on PC" by Sara Jean Green, Seattle Times staff reporter 10/17/14
Kurtis Kasner was ordered held on $500,000 bail on Thursday and is expected to be formally charged on Monday with possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, said Friday.
. . . a letter was sent home Friday to parents to inform families of Kasner’s arrest and provide police contact information for any parent who believes a child may have had questionable or concerning interactions with Kasner.
According to police, Kasner said he has been looking at images of children all his life and has “always been fascinated” by the images, which he found online by entering “incest” into a search engine, the statement says.
“Kasner stated that he knew it was illegal to view and possess child pornography, but he believed that it was overkill. He stated that the law is there mainly to protect the children that images were taken of, but what is done is done,” the statement says.
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From "Washington state substitute teacher and children's book author arrested on child porn charges" by Nicole Hensley, New York Daily News 10/17/14
The teacher is also the self-published author of a science fiction-fantasy series titled “Through a Hole in the Universe.” The story depicts three boys who discover a mysterious portal in a tree leading to another world.
The story was published in 1999, but its manuscript was drafted as far back as 1969 when he taught at Newcomb Elementary School in Long Beach, California, according to a cached profile on Kasner published by the Woodinville Weekly.
He retired before moving to Washington state where he passed a background check and worked at least 100 to 120 hours a year in classrooms for third to sixth-grade students . . .
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Also read Pedophilia is Sexual Orientation, Like 'Being Gay' and also read Normalization of Pedophilia Urged by Psychiatrists
And read Judge Says Incest OK; It's the New Gay
