TEACHER'S Aide Expected to Admit Guilt in All Saints Child Porn Case

By John O'Brien
Syracuse.com
April 14, 2017

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All Saints Elementary School and day care center

A former teacher's aide at a Syracuse elementary school is expected to plead guilty next week in connection with a child pornography case.

Emily Oberst, 24, is scheduled for a "change of plea" hearing Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to court records. The records don't say what charge she's expected to plead guilty to.

Oberst was indicted last year along with Jason Kopp of sexually exploiting children for the purpose of making child pornography and distributing child porn.

Her lawyer, Kim Zimmer, would not comment on the expected guilty plea. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Fletcher also wouldn't comment.

Kopp, 41, pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to 235 years in prison.

Oberst and Kopp were charged with sexually exploiting three children to make child pornography. The victims were a 16-month-old girl, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy, according to a federal indictment.

The indictment accused Oberst of taking sexually explicit photos of the two girls 11 times between Nov. 6, 2014, and March 16, 2016. She was also accused of distributing those pictures seven times over that same period.

One of the victims was a student at All Saints Elementary School in Syracuse, where Oberst worked as a teacher's aide, according to sources. The FBI found naked photos of that child in a school bathroom, the sources said.

All Saints fired Oberst after her arrest last year.

Oberst, of Syracuse, met Kopp online and the two were seeing each other romantically, sources said.

The investigation began in March 2016 when an undercover federal agent started texting on Kik with a user who turned out to be Kopp, court papers said.

Kik is an online messaging app that allows people to anonymously share photos,

messages and videos.

Kopp and an undercover federal agent had online conversations in which Kopp told him a female acquaintance had allowed him to have illicit contact with a baby girl, according to the FBI.

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