AUSTIN, Texas – A former Austin ISD elementary school teacher will serve 16 years in federal prison for possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).<\/p>\n
Court documents say he was found in possession of over 365,000 images of CSAM, including images of minors under 12.<\/p>\n
Some of the images were found to be AI-generated from real images of students in a classroom setting. Two children were identified as students at the school where he worked.<\/p>\n
The Latest:<\/p>\n
51-year-old Carl David Innmon pled guilty in January to one count of possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n
Innmon will also serve 10 years of supervised release after serving his prison sentence.<\/p>\n
He was initially indicted on one count of possession of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography, but only pled guilty to the former.<\/p>\n
Innmon was a fifth-grade teacher at Baranoff Elementary in southwest Austin and had also previously worked as a substitute at approximately 20 other schools in AISD.<\/p>\n
The investigation <\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
According to federal court documents<\/a>, Innmon was accused of downloading multiple batches of downloads between Dec. 29, 2024, and Jan. 15, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n There were 126 files that showed an image of a child engaging in sexual conduct or sexual performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n The children in three of the downloaded files include an infant and two girls between the ages of four and seven.<\/p>\n Court paperwork filed by Texas DPS last March says that in May 2023, DPS investigators began an undercover operation to identify people using torrent and peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing sites to receive and share images and videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).<\/p>\n Investigators identified a computer that was actively sharing CSAM and found within the files being shared, there was “at least one minor child engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” says the affidavit.<\/p>\n From December 29, 2024, to January 15, 2025, the computer downloaded a total of 126 files containing CSAM, including images of nude children being penetrated by adults.<\/p>\n In late February, a subpoena revealed the computer’s IP address was registered to Innmon. Investigators then surveilled his home and learned he worked at Baranoff Elementary.<\/p>\n A search warrant was executed, and Innmon allegedly told investigators he had downloaded images of CSAM. Investigators seized a laptop, Innmon’s cell phone and a portable hard drive. More CSAM files were found on the hard drive, and court paperwork said investigators were still analyzing the seized devices.<\/p>\n Court paperwork filed later says that investigators found over 365,000 known CSAM images on Innmon’s devices.<\/p>\n AI-generated child sexual abuse material <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Federal court documents also said Innmon was in possession of AI-generated child pornography.\u00a0<\/p>\n Investigators said Innmon’s devices “contained a large quantity of real images depicting students in a classroom. Some of those images were allegedly placed in an AI generator, de-clothing the students.”<\/p>\n With assistance from the Austin Independent School District and AISD Police, a Texas Department of Public Safety (TX DPS) Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Special Agent was able to positively identify the students depicted in the images and their ages.\u00a0<\/p>\n The children were allegedly identified as students of Innmon’s.<\/p>\n Investigators also found AI-generated images of the students in “a lewd exhibition”.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Travis County court records still list three charges for Innmon:<\/p>\n Possession of 50 or more images\/videos of child pornography (first-degree felony)Possession of child pornography with intent to promote (second-degree felony)2 counts of possession\/promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child (state jail felony) <\/p>\n Court records show he has a pre-trial hearing listed for August 10.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report comes from the US Attorney’s Office and previous reporting by FOX 7 Austin and FOX Television Stations.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Artificial Intelligence<\/a>Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – A former Austin ISD elementary school teacher will serve 16 years in federal prison for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3436,132,134,133,1046,223,3621,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-368896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}