{"id":371741,"date":"2026-08-14T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371741\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:42:07","slug":"tampa-teacher-charged-with-sending-inappropriate-messages-to-former-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371741\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa teacher charged with sending inappropriate messages to former student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A Tampa middle school teacher has been arrested for allegedly having inappropriate communication with a former student, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detectives launched a criminal investigation July 28 of Christian Schneider, 31, a teacher at Memorial Middle School. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detectives say they learned that Schneider has been sending inappropriate messages to his former teenage student at Franklin Middle School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies say Schneider told them he had engaged in inappropriate communication with the victim since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Schneider was arrested Aug. 14 and charged with two counts of solicitation or possession of child sexual abuse material, and unlawful use of two-way communication device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation remains active, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Tampa middle school teacher has been arrested for allegedly having inappropriate communication with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26563,4738,150233,38435,531,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-371741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-franklin","tag-memorial","tag-midle","tag-schneider","tag-school","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371741","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=371741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}