FORMER HOMER-CENTER TEACHER PLEADS GUILTY

A former Homer-Center school teacher pleaded guilty to child pornography possession.  The Trib reports that 33-year-old Charles Kirkland of Derry Township was arrested in late 2022 after State Police discovered he downloaded as many as nine images of child porn to his home computer.  Kirkland pleaded guilty to two felony counts of child pornography. Two additional felony charges, dissemination of images of child sex acts and criminal use of a computer, were dismissed.  He will be sentenced in three months.