Former South Florida Teacher Roberto Ortiz Sentenced To Prison For Possession Of Child Porn

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A erstwhile South Florida teacher has been sentenced to six and a fractional years successful prison, followed by 8 years of supervised release, for possession of kid porn.

According to the FBI, agents executed a hunt warrant astatine Roberto Ortiz, 27, residence past twelvemonth aft their probe determined that a machine idiosyncratic determination was downloading and sharing kid pornography by means of peer-to-peer file-sharing software. Ortiz’s laptop and respective physics devices were seized. An investigation recovered astir 1,700 images and 40 videos of kid pornography.

Last April, Ortiz, 27, pled blameworthy to possessing ocular depictions of minors engaged successful sexually explicit conduct.

Ortiz worked arsenic a mathematics teacher astatine American Senior High School, successful Hialeah, from 2019 until his apprehension connected July 30, 2020. Prior to that, helium was a teacher astatine Jose Marti High School successful Miami and astatine Youth Co-Op Preparatory Charter School successful Hialeah, a schoolhouse that includes students arsenic young arsenic five.

CBSMiami.com Team