AUSTIN, Texas — A former Austin Independent School District elementary school teacher was sentenced by a federal court to 200 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for the possession of child pornography.
The U.S. Department stated that, according to court documents, a digital forensic analysis of the obtained devices determined that 51-year-old Carl David Innmon had possessed more than 16,000 files depicting child sexual abuse material on a laptop computer and an additional 349,728 files depicting CSAM on an external hard drive.
Thousands of the images possessed by Innmon involved minors under the age of 12.
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Innmon was a fifth-grade teacher in the Austin Independent School District at the time of his arrest in April 2025. He had previously worked as a substitute teacher at approximately 20 other schools within the district. He faced up to 20 years in prison.
“This now-convicted pedophile was tasked with caring for the most vulnerable among us: our children,” said U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, who also made the announcement, Justin R. Simmons. “Instead, he used children to satisfy his deviant sexual desires.”
The Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Grant Sparks prosecuted the case.