A former associate principal at Hoover High School has been sentenced to eight years in prison for possession of child sex abuse material.
Charles Thomas Boyd Defreitas, who had worked within the San Diego Unified School District for over 13 years, including as an administrator at Hoover High and a teacher at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, was arrested in March of 2024.
San Diego police said the arrest occurred after a minor reported that Defreitas "sent and requested illicit images via a social media app." Statements made during Defreitas' sentencing hearing in San Diego federal court indicated that juvenile was a 17-year-old former student.
Defreitas was initially charged in state court, but his case was later transferred to federal court, where he pleaded guilty last year.
In his plea agreement, he admitted possessing videos and images on a laptop, cellphone and four USB thumb drives that depicted juveniles engaged in sexual conduct.
The plea agreement states the offense he pleaded guilty to involves more than 600 images of child sex abuse material and that Defreitas was aware that at least one of the people depicted in the material was under the age of 12.
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