Only on 3: Teacher, Preacher Indicted for Child Exploitation

MISSISSIPPI
WREG

[with video]

November 16, 2012, by Michele Reese

(New Albany, MS) It was the third day of school at Victory Christian Academy in New Albany when a father, who we’re not identifying in order to protect his daughter, says she got a Facebook message from her teacher 25-year-old Benjamin Bishop.

“He asked her to get on an app called Voxer and it is a highly encrypted cell phone app,” he said. “It’s very hard to trace. As a matter of fact police could not even pull those messages off of her phone they had to have the phone itself.”

He says more than a dozen messages were exchanged between his daughter and Bishop. He found them on his daughter’s phone after she confided in a family member.

The messages are so sexually explicit, he says, he doesn’t feel comfortable sharing them.

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