A teacher’s assistant was arrested at a Brooklyn school on Wednesday for reportedly providing a 14-year-old pupil with “sexually explicit” recordings of children, according to police and sources.
Douglass James, 40, was placed in handcuffs at the Juan Morel Campos Secondary School, a South Williamsburg school serving grades 6 through 12, just after 12:30 p.m., according to the NYPD. An adolescent girl victim had filed a complaint with the police earlier in the day, according to sources.
The paraprofessional reportedly gave the girl the X-rated content on Instagram sometime between January 25 and February 5.
According to people who spoke with The New York Post, the message included a “sexually explicit video showing minors engaged in sexual activity.”
James has now been charged with unlawful publication of an intimate image; endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful disclosure intimate image.
