Recently unsealed charging documents reveal that a former teaching assistant at Huffman Elementary School started downloading child pornography roughly 10 years ago and had amassed an estimated 100 gigabytes of the illegal content on his computer.
On Monday, the FBI arrested Daniel Alan Brown, who worked at Huffman as a teaching assistant in the Extended Resource Classroom, according to the Anchorage School District. Brown was located following a tip from the New Zealand Police Department.
Brown told authorities he used Yahoo and a “Russian-based website” to find child porn, and would talk to others using the Russian site about porn. In an interview with the FBI, Brown said his downloading activity had escalated to the point that he was “actively trading images as much as three times a week,” according to a probable cause statement.
An FBI forensic examiner found dozens of items of child pornography on Brown’s home computer, and the former teaching assistant told law enforcement officers that he also kept the illicit material on an older computer and a hard drive stored in a safe deposit box.
So far, the FBI’s investigation shows that no Huffman students were involved in any incidents, ASD spokesperson Heidi Embley said in a Wednesday interview.