A former Maryland teaching assistant has been indicted on 270 child sex charges that include filming videos of students at an elementary school, state prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The suspect, 22-year-old Deonte Carraway, of Glenarden, Maryland, was charged by a grand jury in the Washington suburb of Prince George’s County, prosecutors said in a brief statement.
The indictment is far larger than the six original charges filed against Carraway in February.
Carraway, who was also a church choir director, faces charges of sexual abuse of a minor, sex offenses and child pornography, the statement said.
All the charges stem from actions involving students from Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary School, both on and off the property. Carraway had worked there as an aide and then a volunteer until his arrest.
The indictment alleges Carraway made three girls and twenty boys, aged nine to 13, perform sex acts which he taped and shared with victims using the messaging app Kik, WTOP said.
According to the television station’s report, the indictment alleged: ‘Several children indicated that the defendant told them that they would be participating in a ‘club,’ and that if they wanted to be a part of it, they had to send photos and videos of themselves engaged in sexual acts while alone and while performing sexual acts on other children.’
The indictment was also quoted as claiming: ‘Carraway visited several of these children in their homes, ostensibly after the children’s parents had asked him to baby-sit or tutor the children.’
It alleges that children in the Carraway-led Glenarden Municipal Center choir suffered abuse, according to WTOP.
Carraway, who is being held in jail without bond, had been accused of filming more than 60 sexually explicit videos of minors. Police say many were taken at the school when it was in session.
Police were notified after a father discovered pornographic images on his son’s phone.
