CA: Ex-Bay Area sports coach paid students to create pornography

Source: SFGate

“A former Bay Area high school sports coach was arraigned on Tuesday afternoon on charges that he paid two teenage boys to produce sexually explicit materials for later sale online. Todd Baldwin, who was employed as a sports coach at Valley Christian High School in San Jose, was charged on Oct. 10 with enticing a minor and receiving child pornography. He surrendered to authorities on Oct. 28, the United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California said in a Tuesday news release. Baldwin, 44, is accused of paying two students to create child pornography between December 2022 and August 2023, which he sold on Reddit, according to a criminal complaint. The two students were 16 and 17 years old at the time. The first teenager, a 17-year-old, began to provide images and photos in December 2022, sending via Snapchat and Gmail, after Baldwin allegedly persuaded him, the complaint said.” (12/19/24)

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