{"id":370657,"date":"2026-07-12T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370657\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:57:10","slug":"former-aisd-teacher-sentenced-to-16-years-for-possessing-child-sexual-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370657\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AISD teacher sentenced to 16 years for possessing child sexual abuse material"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Thousands of the images possessed by Innmon involved minors under the age of 12.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis now-convicted pedophile was tasked with caring for the most vulnerable among us: our children,\u201d said U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, who also made the announcement, Justin R. Simmons. \u201cInstead, he used children to satisfy his deviant sexual desires.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Grant Sparks prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A former Austin Independent School District elementary school teacher was sentenced by a federal court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-370657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370657","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=370657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}