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A teacher was arrested at his Deerfield Beach home on Thursday, May 28, 2026. He appeared in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Friday, May 29, 2026, on charges alleging the possession and receipt of child sexual-abuse material. <\/p>\n
Miami Herald File<\/p>\n
A South Florida teacher has been charged with sending and receiving videos of children being sexually abused, according to an FBI criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Patrick Conor Russell, 37, taught at Saint Andrew\u2019s School, a private Episcopal boarding school in Boca Raton. He has been fired, the school said.<\/p>\n
Russell, who was arrested at his Deerfield Beach home on Thursday, appeared in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Friday on charges alleging the possession and receipt of child sexual-abuse material. He\u2019s being detained in a Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office jail.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, the investigation into Russell began after FBI agents in the Cincinnati area executed a search warrant on another person, identified as \u201cSubject 1,\u201d as part of an investigation into child sexual-abuse material.<\/p>\n
Agents said as they searched a device belonging to \u201cSubject 1,\u201d they found thousands of files of child sexual-abuse material and reviewed chats on the messaging app Zangi. They said they identified chats with a user going by the handle of \u201cJack C,\u201d who was later revealed to be Russell.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the two exchanged links involving \u201csexually explicit content involving minors,\u201d and Russell made remarks expressing an interest in \u201cteen boys and girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, Russell discussed a sexual role-play scenario in which \u201cSubject 1\u201d was \u201ca student in my high school English class\u201d and expressed sexual desires for his students.<\/p>\n
Authorities said a search of Russell\u2019s phone indicated he participated in group chats dedicated to sharing child sexual-abuse videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher was arrested at his Deerfield Beach home on Thursday, May 28, 2026. He appeared in Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-289633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289633","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=289633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}