Dr. Robert Lee Turner<\/a>, 64, following a trial that centered on child porn investigators said was found on his cellphone.<\/p>\nTurner was arrested in August 2024 after police began investigating a cyber tip from Instagram. Authorities said the social media company reported that child sexual abuse material had been uploaded through an account connected to Turner.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA psychologist for Miami-Dade County Public Schools has been arrested on child pornography charges after he allegedly uploaded sexual abuse material to social media, police said. NBC6’s Steve Litz reports\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Investigators said they found multiple videos involving children between the ages of 8 and 16 stored on Turner’s phone. Police also said some of the material had remained on the device for more than two years.<\/p>\n
Authorities further alleged that investigators uncovered online conversations in which Turner described fantasies involving children.<\/p>\n
Turner’s attorneys argued that he had been hacked and that his personal information had been stolen. The defense maintained that Turner was not responsible for the material investigators found.<\/p>\n
In about two hours, the jury ultimately rejected the defense and found Turner guilty on all eight charges.<\/p>\n
Among the convictions are charges involving the promotion and possession of a sexual performance by a child.<\/p>\n
Turner previously worked as a psychologist with Miami-Dade County Public Schools.<\/p>\n
With the guilty verdict now entered, the case moves to the sentencing phase. A judge will determine Turner’s punishment at a later date.<\/p>\n
Turner, who was on house arrest awaiting trial, was placed back into custody until sentencing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Miami-Dade County Public Schools psychologist has been found guilty of eight criminal charges after prosecutors accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1219,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-377303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377303","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=377303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}