Daily News | Lower Merion teacher posed as teenage girl online to solicit nudes from students, feds say
A Lower Merion teacher charged last week in a child pornography case solicited explicit photos and videos from hundreds more teenage girls than originally thought — including at least one of his own students, federal authorities said Tuesday.
“Schobel was adept at concealing his true identity, making it frighteningly easy to engage with his teenage victims and manipulate them into engaging in sexually explicit conduct for his deviant pleasure,” she wrote. “His predatory tactics demonstrate the true danger he poses to every child.
During a brief appearance in federal court Tuesday, Schobel, heavily bearded and dressed in a dark green prison jumpsuit, said nothing as a U.S. magistrate judge ordered him detained until his trial. A subsequent review of activity on those accounts and Snapchat profiles using the same screen names uncovered contact with hundreds of girls between the ages of 16 and 18 dating back years, Rotella said in the filings Tuesday.
Schobel — who before arriving at Harriton in 2021 had worked as an English teacher and girls’ softball coach at Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts — admitted to investigators that he’d communicated with dozens of teens using the accounts. But he denied targeting any of his students.
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