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Teacher’s aide made pornographic video inside school: FBI

Teacher’s aide made pornographic video inside school: FBI

A Brooklyn teacher's aide who dressed up in an bunny costume at Easter and led an all-boys dance group has been accused of producing a trove of kiddie porn — some of it inside a classroom. Taleek Brooks, 40, an aide at Public School 243 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was arrested Tuesday after the FBI found disturbing images on his computer of him fondling a boy's genitals and spanking a naked child, officials said.

FBI officials said Brooks admitted making his sick videos and photos and sharing them with online perverts for as long seven years.

The stunning allegations sent hair-raising chills through the school where he has worked since 1995, angering parents and prompting School Chancellor Dennis Walcott to call the charges "disgusting."

"Our paramount concern is for the safety of our students, and we are cooperating fully with the federal authorities as they continue their investigation," said Walcott, who met with school staff and said there were no red flags about Brooks.

"We had no indication," Walcott added. "This is a horrendous case."

The case also sent shockwaves through the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, where Brooks worked as an afterschool group leader.

"We fired him as soon as the first allegation came to light," said Joseph Patuleia, executive director of the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, adding that a background check came up clean. "We're working with the FBI as everyone is."

Officials also said Brooks ran a all-boys dance group at PS 243 called "Freestylers" and often took kids from the group to see movies like "How to Train a Dragon" and out for pizza and ice cream.

In a disturbing photo that Brooks posted on his school blog in 2010, he is dressed as the Easter bunny and has his arm around children.

The FBI stumbled on Brooks' twisted pastime Dec. 29 when he told an agent in an Internet chat room that he was "interested in black boys 10 years old and older," according to the complaint.

Brooks was initially arrested last month on charges of possessing child pornography and freed on $100,000 bail.

He was re-arrested Monday night after FBI agents searched a computer and two hard drives seized from the bedroom of his Brooklyn apartment.

(By John Marzulli; NEW YORK DAILY)

 

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