Teacher’s aide pleads guilty to child porn
On Friday, Taleek Brooks, a former teacher’s aide at a public elementary school in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to producing child pornography and distributing child pornography.
The proceedings were held before United States Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann at the United States Courthouse in Brooklyn. Brooks faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment and a maximum sentence of 50 years’ imprisonment when sentenced on May 23, 2013.
Brooks, a teacher’s aide at P.S. 243,the Weeksville School, regularly downloaded and distributed videos and images depicting child pornography over the Internet through a peer-to-peer file sharing program.