{"id":271777,"date":"2026-05-15T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271777\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:55:08","slug":"former-staff-member-at-countryside-christian-academy-in-pinellas-county-arrested-on-child-porn-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271777\/","title":{"rendered":"Former staff member at Countryside Christian Academy in Pinellas County arrested on child porn charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives say David Reitmeyer, 75, was the director of information technology at the school. He has been terminated from employment.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A staff member at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myccacademy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">private school in Pinellas County<\/a> has been arrested on child porn charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they were notified that child pornography files were being accessed and shared through the internet, eventually learning that those files were of children under eight years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detectives say they identified the suspect as David Reitmeyer, 75, from Safety Harbor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reitmeyer was the director of information technology at Countryside Christian Academy, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. He has been terminated from employment, and the school has reportedly been cooperative throughout the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed that there&#8217;s no indication of Reitmeyer participating in illegal activity while on the school&#8217;s property.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the sheriff&#8217;s office said Reitmeyer was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on nine counts of possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives say David Reitmeyer, 75, was the director of information technology at the school. He has been terminated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-271777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}