Child porn found on UK teacher’s PC

Hundreds of indecent images of school children have been found on the computer of a British teacher who was found dead recently.

According to the police, nearly 600 secretly taken indecent images of boys aged nine to 12 were found on the computer of Martin Goldberg, the deputy head teacher of a school in Essex, England.

The police say the photographs, which date from 2000 onwards, seem to have been taken by a camera hidden in a bag.

The 46-year-old teacher was found dead by his own hand at his home on September 10, a day after he was questioned by the police in relation to purchasing pedophilic related pornography.

Goldberg had been a teacher at the Thorpe Hall School for 23 years.

Andrew Hampton, the school’s head teacher, statement said in a statement that all the staff were “very shocked” and that they all felt “surprised, angry and betrayed.”

“There were no indications whatsoever that Mr. Goldberg was leading a double life,” he added.

A senior police officer said they had been notified in November 2013 that Goldberg had purchased pedophilic related material, but they “didn’t feel the case was sufficiently made out” for the police to act on this information.

Recent reports show that British schools have witnessed a 40-percent rise in sex-crime reports from 2011 to 2013, with at least 2,865 cases being recorded.

Last month, a report by Professor Alexis Jay revealed that at least 1,400 children had been sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham.

In some cases, children as young as 11, were “raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated,” the report added.

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