FLORIDA
News-Journal
By Richard Conn & Annie Martin
richard.conn@news-jrnl.com annie.martin@news-jrnl.com
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Edgewater police are reopening a decade-old case involving a Warner Christian Academy teacher who was arrested Monday by the FBI and charged with producing and distributing child pornography.
Agents found thousands of pornographic images of children on the computer of Matthew Graziotti, who turned 43 on Tuesday, when they executed a search warrant Monday at his Mango Tree Drive home in Edgewater. Graziotti is a fifth-grade teacher at the South Daytona private school and also served as director of the school’s summer day camp.
The school’s superintendent, Mark Tress, said Graziotti was placed on unpaid administrative suspension pending results of the case. Graziotti is being held at Seminole County Jail.
Following Graziotti’s arrest, Edgewater police are going to look into a 2004 complaint lodged against him, Capt. Joe Mahoney said.
“In 2004, there was an allegation made against Mr. Graziotti that he had misconduct with minor children,” Mahoney said. “We investigated it; we weren’t able to produce obviously any incriminating results at that time, and knowing what we know now, we’ve reactivated it.”
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