RICHMOND, Va. - A former Richmond City Public Schools music teacher has pleaded guilty after producing images of child sexual abuse.

Court documents say Kellen Thomas Donelson, 32, received attention from law enforcement in 2019 for uploading multiple images of child pornography via Snapchat and Kik Messenger.

Law enforcement says during a court-authorized search of his home and electronic devices in December of 2019, additional images and videos of child sexual abuse were discovered.

Donelson admitted in a statement of facts that he produced several images and videos of child pornography using his personal cell phone, including with a four-year-old victim.

At the time of Donelson’s arrest, he was employed as an elementary school music teacher with Richmond City Public Schools and an Associated Minister/Music Director at Mount Hope Baptist Church.

Court documents say Donelson pleaded guilty to the production of child pornography and faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison when sentenced on Sept. 28, 2020.

>https://www.nbc12.com/2020/06/24/former-rps-music-teacher-pleads-guilty-child-pornography-case/

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HENRICO, Va. - A former school bus driver has been sentenced after traveling to Virginia to sexually abuse minors, according to the Department of Justice.

Thomas Monti, 73, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for traveling from Tennessee to Henrico County in order to meet up with and sexually abusing two children. Monti previously worked as a teacher since 1972 and an assistant principal from 1996 to 2007 in the Nashville, T.N area.

Court documents say Monti, under the name, “Master Thorn”, reached out online to an undercover FBI agent posing as an adult with access to two minor children.

Documents also say Monti detailed his interest in engaging in sexual acts with the children, to include graphic and violent sadomasochistic conduct.

The explicit chats continued for two months until October 2019 when Monti made the 10-hour trip from Tennessee to Virginia to meet the purported woman and the children in Henrico County.

According to court documents, Monti’s intent was to live with the woman and the children for a time in order to engage in various forms of sexual abuse.

The Department of Justice says once Monti arrived at a restaurant in Henrico County on the afternoon of October 3, agents with the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force arrested him.

>https://www.nbc12.com/2020/06/24/former-school-employee-sentenced-after-traveling-sexually-abuse-minors/