HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A Miami-Dade County Public Schools maintenance employee is facing 11 felony charges after he was caught at his Hollywood home with “dozens” of child sexual abuse images, police said Thursday.
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According to an arrest report from the Hollywood Police Department, Arthur Collot admitted that he “uses the dark web” to download the illicit content.
The HPD report states that the investigation into Collot, 63, began in November after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip that he was uploading child sexual abuse material.
A search warrant executed Wednesday at his home in the 7400 block of Roosevelt Street revealed the images on his electronic devices, police said. The report states that the files depicted victims as young as 3 being subject to various forms of abuse, including rape and bondage.
Police said Collot “originally denied being involved” but later admitted to being “into child pornography” since the early 1990s.
Authorities did not disclose which school Collot worked at.
In a statement, an M-DCPS spokesperson said district officials are “deeply troubled by the disturbing allegations.”
“This district is committed to upholding all employees to the highest standard of integrity and respect and this type of comportment will not be tolerated,” the statement reads. “As a result, his employment with the District will be terminated and the individual has been precluded from seeking future employment with the District.”
As of Thursday, he was being held in the Broward Main Jail on a $82,500 bond.