Former Douglas County teacher gets 90 days jail time for child sexual exploitation

A former Douglas County School District guide and coach who took a deal and pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation in September was sentenced Friday to days in jail court agents explained Christen Cassic a -year-old man from Parker will also serve years of sexual offender intensive supervised probation which includes monitoring of all electronic devices according to a news release from the rd Judicial District Attorney s Office Cassic was arrested in January and pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child in September a deal that dropped an indecent exposure charge from his affair according to Douglas County court records Cassic started working as a computer science mentor and soccer coach at Rock Canyon High School in and was also an assistant coach at Legend High School from to He is no longer employed by the school district On Jan a fellow educator at Rock Canyon High School entered a classroom and discovered Cassic watching pornography with his pants down according to the District Attorney s Office The following probe uncovered a major number of pornographic images on a USB drive including child sexual abuse material as well as pictures of students taken in class without their knowledge DA administrators wrote in the release Related Articles Adams County treasurer faces calls to step down over assertions of inappropriate behavior Fired Aurora police officer charged with assault child abuse after domestic violence arrest Man charged with murder in fatal Aurora parking lot shooting A woman died in her seat on an overnight train to Denver Nine years later her boyfriend is on trial for murder CU to pay million to settle lawsuit by former medicinal school employees who refused COVID vaccine This incident was a profound breach of trust Chief Deputy District Attorney Danielle Jaramillo stated in the release At present s sentence delivers accountability and provides a measure of closure for students and families harmed by his actions Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day