Church School Teacher Arrested On Child Porn Charges

February 18, 2023 Crime, Religion

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports:

More than 30 law enforcement agencies around North Texas arrested nearly 60 people in a month-long operation aimed at rescuing child victims of online sexual exploitation. The operation, Operation Janus, resulted in 80 charges against 59 people, and rescued 28 children from online sexual abuse, police said.

Plano Detective Jeff Rich said some of the suspects were meeting physically with children while others were sharing images with devices. The charges ranged from possession of contraband material of child exploitation through hands-on offenses.

Police said the operation began on Jan. 16 and continued through Feb. 10. Some of those arrested were trafficking illegal images and videos of children forced into sexual acts, police said.

Fort Worth’s Fox affiliate reports:

The victims in the operation are as young as infants, according to investigators. A detective says this started after companies like Google and Facebook flagged the inappropriate material.

More charges could be coming as the devices are analyzed. Among those charged are Jesse McFall, who worked for Dallas Fire-Rescue, Brandon Froning, who taught at Parish Episcopal and Michael A. Newhouse, Jr., who worked as a substitute teacher for McKinney ISD.

Operation Janus was the result of a number of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The name of the mission comes from Roman mythology and the two-faced god who looks to the future and the past.

Dallas’s CBS affiliate reports:



Parish Episcopal School kindergarten teacher Brandon Froning was arrested on charges related to possession of child pornography. He has worked there since the 2021-22 school year.

“News of the arrest is upsetting and sad to everyone in our community. There is no higher priority than the safety and security of our students,” a school spokesperson told CBS 11, adding that Froning passed his criminal and background checks.

“To our knowledge, these charges are solely related to online misconduct and do not involve any current or former Parish students,” the letter read in part. Froning was suspended pending further investigation and barred from the Parish campus.

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