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NYC teacher with 1,000 children's porn pictures caught: Feds

A teacher of the Upper West Side Middle School was caught with 1,000 photos and videos of children's porn – some with children aged 3, the authorities said.

Ross Lanvin, who, according to the Sources, taught mathematics according to the MS 256 Lafayette Academy, allegedly used a fake name to create a Burner Google account to keep his sick hiding place from September 2021 to December, shared Manhattan.

According to the US prosecutor's office in Manhattan, the 41 -year -old lavine was arrested on February 13, February 13th.

Ross Lanvin allegedly had about 1,000 pictures and a video of children's pornography, said the authorities. IG @lafaytetacademy256

In December, Google turned around 150 pictures and 90 videos, which apparently contained explicit content to the national center for missing and exploited children, and, according to the submission of the Federal Court in Manhattan.

The NCMEC sent the perverse files to investigators, and according to prosecutors, the authorities found even more children's porn while looking through Lanvin's apartment in Manhattan.

Lanvin was listed in public records as life in Harlem.

Lanvin allegedly also used the Google account Burner to look for teaching plans and teaching resources. Once she used the AI ​​chat bot -gemini to find mathematical problems to take a quiz, and search for the court files for “gay teenagers” and search a porn site.

In May, the Google account was even accessed by the Ministry of Education of the Ministry of Education, according to the investigators.

Lanvin supposedly confirmed that the Google account was and admitted to accessing child pornography, the prosecutors said in court files.

Lanvin is said to have recently taught on the Upper West Side at MS 256, says Quellen. Helayne Seidman
A video on the Instagram page of Lafayette Academy with education “Mr. Lanvin ”showed him to take part in an event at the Lafayette Academy in 2023. IG @lafaytetacademy256

According to the school's archived versions, Lanvin was performed as a sixth grade math teacher at the Lafayette Academy from at least August 2020 to last year.

A video on the school's Instagram account from March 2023 entitled “Mr. Lanvin ”shows the teacher on stage at an event that the headmaster and a student put a plate with whipped cream in the face.

Lanvin was released on February 18 with a bond of 75,000 US dollars and, according to court records, was due again in March.

The examination has not yet been completed and everyone with further information is asked to contact the SDNY.

According to online records, Lanvin has been on City's wage and salary accounts since 2006 and continues to have active apprenticeships for classes 1 to 6 and bilingual education.

Lanvin was listed on the MS 236 Lafayette Academy website until last year.

A DOE spokeswoman rejected the schools in which Lanvin worked over almost 20 years, but said that the indictment was “extremely worrying” and he was “rejected” by the students until the result of the arrest “.

“If they are convicted, we will pursue termination,” she added.

He provides for a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.

Lanvin's lawyer did not answer inquiries from the post office.