New York City School Official Pleads Guilty to ‘Kiddie Porn’ Charge
Featured photograph: Top New York City public schools official David. A. Hay faces up to 20-years in federal prison for child pornography.
The debate over the opening of public schools this fall should address the numerous incidents of school administrators, teachers and officials involved in child sex crimes including trafficking in “kiddie porn” videos and images sent on the Internet.
“Maybe these children are safer from sexual predators if they are forced to stay at home due to the Coronavirus,” said sex crimes expert Det. Ruth Chasen. Also, mayors and governors in so-called Blue States and Democrat-run cities are more concerned about the ‘rights’ of predators and their health and safety than they are about the welfare of vulnerable school children placed in their care,” she said.
For example, on September 16, U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on September 15, 2020, 40-year-old David A. Hay of Brooklyn, New York, pled guilty to a federal charge of receiving child pornography.
According to a report obtained by the 13,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police (NACOP), in May of 2010 while living and heading a Wisconsin public school, Hay exchanged emails with a 15-year-old child. During the course of these communications, the defendant received sexually explicit digital images and videos from the child. In turn, Hay provided sexually explicit images of himself to the 15-year-old high-schooler.
Hay was the principal at Wisconsin’s Tomah High School 2011 through 2014. Prior to that, Hay was principal at Kettle Moraine High School from 2008 through 2011 before resigning following the school district’s discovery of irregularities with Hay’s licensing and the misuse of an education department credit card.
Most recently, Hay served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the New York City Chancellor of Schools, a top position in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.
Hay faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years of incarceration in federal prison when he is sentenced by a Federal District Court judge on December 18, 2020.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006, by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
The City of Neenah (Wisconsin) Police Department with the assistance of the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are credited with Hay’s arrest. Hay is being fiercely prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel R. Humble.
