teachercrime
02-05-2009, 04:18 PM
Michael Kelly Reiner
Michael Kelly Reiner, 48, of East Meadow, New York a former teacher described by parents and colleagues as caring and dedicated was sentenced Thursday in a federal court in Central Islip to 6 1/2 years in prison (http://www.teachercrimes.com/?p=1583) for possession of child pornography.
Reiner, had hundreds of still and video images of children on several computers when he was arrested in September 2006, prosecutors said. Some of the images depicted sex acts between adults and children younger than 5 years old, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Bianco rejected the defense's arguments that Reiner received the images by accident and had tried to delete them five years ago. Many of the images were "extremely graphic (http://www.teachercrimes.com/?p=1583)," Bianco said. "It is all the more tragic that Mr. Reiner has betrayed his trust as a teacher."
After his arrest, Reiner was fired from the Long Island School for the Gifted in Huntington Station, where he had taught for 18 years.
http://www.teachercrimes.com/?p=1583
Michael Kelly Reiner, 48, of East Meadow, New York a former teacher described by parents and colleagues as caring and dedicated was sentenced Thursday in a federal court in Central Islip to 6 1/2 years in prison (http://www.teachercrimes.com/?p=1583) for possession of child pornography.
Reiner, had hundreds of still and video images of children on several computers when he was arrested in September 2006, prosecutors said. Some of the images depicted sex acts between adults and children younger than 5 years old, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Bianco rejected the defense's arguments that Reiner received the images by accident and had tried to delete them five years ago. Many of the images were "extremely graphic (http://www.teachercrimes.com/?p=1583)," Bianco said. "It is all the more tragic that Mr. Reiner has betrayed his trust as a teacher."
After his arrest, Reiner was fired from the Long Island School for the Gifted in Huntington Station, where he had taught for 18 years.
http://www.teachercrimes.com/?p=1583