Seattle:
The former teacher at the Seattle Academy, a prestigious private school, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a federal court possessing child pornography.

A cousin of Gabriel Cronin aged 42, complained against him to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, that Cronin told the family members that he was addicted to child pornography for years and was seeking for help, the complaint was lodged by the policemen and arrested Cronin after which he was fired from the school.

Mr.Cronin appeared before the U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue, who accepted his guilty plea and ordered him to appear for the sentencing before the U.S District Judge Ricardo Martinez on July 20.

The Judicial documents sates that, he will face up to 10 years in jail and then there would be chances for life time supervision.

Cronin, who served as the Adviser for Robotics Club remains free on bond, according to the report of charges against him, Cronin was confronted by a pair of detectives, and admitted to be struggling with a sexual attraction towards young girls for years. He said he was in therapy and was trying to attempt relationships with adult women and filled his calendar accordingly with activities like rowing, to combat with desires, he proclaimed that he had been able to stay away from pornography was six weeks long.

Cronin repeatedly denied that he never touched his students, although he was fascinated about them, in few instances he also morphed photographs of students on to pornographic images, as reported in a criminal complaint. During his trip to Africa, he said he downloaded pornography to his cellphone for fantasy.

The department police seized his school owned laptop system and discovered that thousands of photographs of girls, who were clothed, some were in erotic or suggestive poses.

Detectives also found hundreds of Photographs uploaded on the so called “Dark Web” from a notorious Ukrainian Pornography mill that exploded hundreds of young Eastern European girls and teens.

By Lokesh