Our inservice on Monday made the evening news on Tuesday...
Graphic lesson learned about online sexual predators
BY CHRIS REDFORD credford@ktbs.com
This week, dozens of teachers and staff at Bossier's Greenacres Middle School watched in horror as an accused online predator showed everything.
The man is now behind bars. He was arrested near Houma, La., Wednesday morning. He'll be brought to Bossier in a few days.
Just when Greenacres Middle School Principal Kathy Bouck thought she had seen it all, she saw something shocking.
"The initial reaction was one of shock and then disdain," she said.
What Bouck and about 50 others saw was a 25-year old man sexually performing on his webcam for who authorities say he "thought" was a 13-year old girl. "She" was really Matt Wright with the local Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Wright says he was giving a presentation about online sexual predators to teachers at Greenacres when Jeremy Robichaux made contact with him. Wright says within minutes, Robichaux started talking about sex, then showed all.
"It really did illustrate how quickly these predators can get in contact with these children and move to a point where they would send something like that," Wright said.
This is why Bossier D.A. Schuyler Marvin says school presentations are so important. The more educated the educators, the better educated the kids.
Robichaux is the 78th person to be arrested by the task force since it formed last June. Bouck says she has asked the task force to give another presentation at the school's next PTO meeting.
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WOW!!! While that had to be creepy, it is good that you guys are being educated. Our district just blocks EVERYTHING so they don't have to worry about it while kids are in our walls, and then they go out into the world defenseless.
Oh my goodness! Now that is an inservice to remember!
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