Are all Band Teachers Pervs?

52-year-old Raymond Ferenci, a teacher at Tulare Western High School, was charged with having child pornography. Ferenci is the school’s band director and is very popular with the students he taught.

On Thursday, Federal Agents arrested Ferenci after finding more than 200 pictures and videos of child pornography on his personal computer. Agents may have never found the images had three of Ferenci’s female students not reported inappropriate text messages he sent them last May and told them about internet correspondences.

Tulare Police Captain Jerry Breckridge said, “What we began to see was a pattern and we didn’t want this to progress any further. He had the text messages, he had photos and we don’t know what’s going to happen next as far as it progressing to something worse.”

Ferenci has been on paid administrative leave since May and in his Federal Criminal Complaint, he admitted to the crime. Raymond Ferenci is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.