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Joseph Taylor McKeel is a teacher at Independence High School in Hell\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\nA New York City public school teacher is facing federal child porn charges after he was caught with a thumb drive of disturbing images, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Joseph Taylor McKeel, a science teacher at Independence High School in Hell\u2019s Kitchen, was arrested Wednesday morning at his Brooklyn home after authorities found him with 150 images of child sexual abuse that he got from a social media app, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
McKeel \u2014 who used the online username \u201cNYSubSlut\u201d \u2014 was discovered by the FBI after undercover operatives with the Scottish police first spotted him trading child porn over Zoom in September with an online group, called \u201cJust guys and football\u201d \u2014 who were suspected of sharing child porn, the feds said.<\/p>\n
Joseph Taylor McKeel is a teacher at Independence High School in Hell\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\n
Authorities were able to trace McKeel\u2019s username\u2019s IP address back to him \u2014 which eventually led to US federal agents obtaining a warrant to search McKeel\u2019s home, <\/p>\n
McKeel was listed as \u201cTaylor McKeel\u201d on the staff directory at Independence High School before the webpage was scrubbed sometime this week.<\/p>\n
He was charged with possession of child pornography and arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
McKeel was released on $200,000 bond and ordered by Brooklyn Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon to be placed in a drug treatment program. <\/p>\n
His attorney, Kyla Wells, declined to comment Friday.<\/p>\n
The Post reached out to the city\u2019s Department of Education seeking comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City public school teacher is facing federal child porn charges after he was caught with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,11827,100,99,1239,4154,9,24,63,5181,58],"class_list":["post-169659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-federal-court","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-child-pornography","tag-hells-kitchen","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-teachers","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}