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The Columbus Dispatch
By Earl Rinehart
The Columbus Dispatch • Friday October 2, 2015
A former Watterson High School teacher accused of having sexual contact with an underage male student from the high school was charged today with producing child pornography.
Brian Sze, who was assistant director of music at Watterson last school year, is accused in a federal complaint of giving his phone to the boy and telling him to record himself masturbating at Sze’s Lewis Center home.
The boy told investigators that he and Sze also watched pornography together. Investigators said they found sexually explicit emails and text messages from Sze on two of the student’s electronic devices.
The acts occurred between April 2014 and May 2015, according to the complaint filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Columbus. …
In a letter to families, Joseph Brettnacher, superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Columbus, said Sze was fired on June 15 after admitting that he sent inappropriate text messages to a student and the matter was reported to the Ohio Department of Education.
“At that time, there was absolutely no other indication of any other wrongdoing,” the letter says. “At the time of his termination we had no knowledge or suspicion of any sexual contact or sexual abuse.”
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