FLORIDA
Palm Beach Post
By Jorge Milian
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
The daughter of ex-Rosarian Academy teacher Stephen Budd, who is already facing charges of molesting two of his former fourth-grade students, told police that her father videotaped her childhood friends while directing them to dance and touch themselves.
Jillian Budd, now 26, notified police of the videotaping in April, according to court documents obtained Friday by The Palm Beach Post. The documents detail an interview West Palm Beach Police had with Budd’s daughter and also spell out 59 additional charges of child pornography that Budd now faces.
After executing a search warrant that was prepared June 18, police found 41 images and 19 videos of boys and girls under the age of 12, and girls under the age of 18 having sex with adult males. The videos were described in a probable-cause affidavit as sadomasochistic. However, it is unknown if the girls in the videos are Budd’s former students or his daughter’s friends.
Reached Friday by the Post, Jason Weiss, Budd’s attorney, declined comment on the new allegations because he said he had not yet seen the state attorney’s report. Weis did say that he intends to enter a plea of not guilty at Budd’s bond hearing on his original child molestation charge. That hearing is scheduled for next Friday.
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