A 12-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl expecting to look at a photo disc of the girl's second-grade Rock Crusher Elementary School class instead saw people taking of their clothes.
According to Citrus County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Gail Tierney, the boy loaded the DVD, but when the adults on screen started to take off their clothes, the boy turned it off and called for his mother. The DVD was reported to the sheriff's office.
The DVD was one of 19 discs provided by a second-grade teacher at RCE on Tuesday and distributed to her students, Tierney said. After school officials requested Wednesday that all the other discs be returned, a sheriff's detective determined that only one disc contained inappropriate material. Tierney said the other 18 were recordable CDs and contained still photos of children in the class throughout the school year.
Tierney said the DVD, which a sheriff's detective described as adult commercial pornography, was accidentally included in the discs for the students. Tierney said the teacher made the discs and gave them to a substitute teacher to distribute for her because she had been out.
The teacher and her husband told the investigator that her husband helped her make the discs for the children. "It would appear that the rogue DVD was his," Tierney said.
Tierney said the case is still open but no criminal charges are anticipated.
"I'm just glad that the 12-year-old stopped the DVD and that the kids didn't watch it," Tierney said.
School district officials said a personnel investigation would be conducted. Mike Mullen, executive director of support services for the district, said the teacher is not in the classroom now.
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