Mary Star Teacher from Rancho Palos Verdes Met Victims on Tutoring Website: Police

CALIFORNIA
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By Alexander Nguyen (Patch Staff) – January 11, 2017

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — More details are immerging from the arrest of a Mary Star physics teacher for allegedly possessing child pornography.

Daniel T. O’Connell, 32, was arrested Tuesday, at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Police began investigating O’Connell after receiving information that he was allegedly “having inappropriate contact with minors that he met while on a mathematics tutoring website,” according to an LAPD statement.

O’Connell is employed at Mary Star of the Sea High School in San Pedro as a physics teacher, police said.

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