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Star-Telegram
BY RYAN OSBORNE
rosborne@star-telegram.com
A former Fort Worth high school drama teacher exchanged nude photographs and videos with a 15-year-old boy from Michigan and told authorities the teen was his boyfriend, the U.S. attorney’s office said Tuesday.
Matthew Anthony Keller, 24, was arrested last week. He faces a charge of receipt of child pornography, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. He remains in federal custody with a detention hearing set for Wednesday.
Keller, a Watauga resident, and the teen exchanged photographs and videos for about 18 months after meeting in an online chat room when the boy was 13, according to a federal complaint.
Last month, Keller resigned voluntarily from his job as a theater director at Southwest High School, school district spokesman Clint Bond said.He was hired by the district in August 2014, spending his first year at South Hills High School before moving to Southwest.
The complaint also referred to Keller as a youth pastor.
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