OVIEDO, Fla. —A teacher at Hagerty High School, in Oviedo, was arrested Friday by federal agents on child pornography charges.
According to a complaint filed in federal court, the FBI began investigating Greg Vaughn, a social studies teacher, in May for an alleged online relationship he had with a 17-year-old girl in Castle Rock, Colorado.
Vaughn met the girl in 2013 on a website called deviantart.com, and the two exchanged nude photographs, according to the FBI.
The victim’s mother found the emails and contacted authorities, officials said.
The FBI said the two also did sexual role play, and Vaughn would send the girl gifts, including money, books, candy, clothes, panties and special-effects makeup.
Vaughn was arrested at his Oviedo home Friday and is being held on no bond.
An arrest affidavit said Vaughn admitted knowing that the girl was 17 years old. He also told investigators that the sexual nature of the role playing was part of therapy to make the teen feel good about herself, documents said.
According to Seminole County Schools, Vaughn has been teaching at the school since 2005 and has no history of discipline. If he is released from jail, he is not welcome on campus, the school district said.
“For a guy that was so nice and everyone knew him and liked him, no one could have known that was going to happen,” said a former student of Vaughn, Christian Pasciak.
Parents of children at the school received an automated phone message Sunday informing them of the arrest.
This is the fourth time an educator at Hagerty High School has been arrested in the past couple of years. In February, the administrative dean was charged with soliciting a prostitute. In September 2014, a teacher was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl at his home. In May 2014, an assistant football coach was accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl.
The school district said that while it’s concerning to have several incidents of teachers accused of sex crimes at one school, they believe they make the boundaries clear to their employees regarding relationships with students.
This is the 4th teacher in like a year at that school
Wow another one? This is almost like every other day. This registry I am on is really doing a great job of stopping all these teacher and student relationships, police officers committing sexual offenses and ,Disney workers as well etc…,,,let’s give a standing ovation to the registry and sheriff Grady Judd for stopping sexual offenses in Florida. This may very wellbe the last sexual offense we hear about because of these two major amazing factors -Grady Judd and the registry…..