Taleek Brooks (aka Tyleek Brooks), 40, teacher's aide at PS 243 The Weeksville School, New York City Department of Education, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, possession and manufacture of child porn New York Post: Teacher-aide porn arrest (Jan 14 2012) A teacher’s aide at a Brooklyn grade school was arrested yesterday by the FBI and charged with possession of child porn. Taleek Brooks allegedly confessed that he had assembled more than 1,000 pornographic images of underage children on his computers. Tags:
Huffington Post: Taleek Brooks, Teacher's Aide, Arrested For Making Child Porn At School (Feb 7 2012) Taleek Brooks, a New York teacher's aide from Brooklyn's PS 243 elementary school who was charged last month with possession and distribution of child pornography, has been arrested again by the FBI, this time for an even more disturbing claim. After Brooks confessed to gathering over 1,000 pornographic images of children on his computer, FBI officials searched his home. There, they reportedly discovered evidence of a second offense: videos that showed the teacher's aide sexually abusing children inside the school. Police reportedly found two self-produced child porn videos, one of Brooks touching a child's genitals, and the other of him spanking a naked child. Investigators believe both incidents occurred in a classroom.
Gothamist: Teacher's Aide Accused Of Making Kiddie Porn In School (Feb 7 2012) The FBI last night arrested PS 243 teacher's aide Taleek Brooks for the second time this month on child pornography charges. When Brooks was arrested the first time it was simply for having child pornography on his Brooklyn computer. The second arrest was because it appears that Brooks was producing child pornography, too. Did we mention he was making the videos in school?
Federal Bureau of Investigation New York Field Office: Brooklyn Man Charged with Production of Child Pornography (Feb 7 2012) Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Janice K. Fedarcyk, Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office, today announced that Taleek Brooks was arrested last night for production of child pornography.1 The defendant is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Joan M. Azrack, at the U.S. Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York. This is the second time in the past month that the defendant, a teacher’s aide at PS 243, The Weeksville School, in Brooklyn, New York, and an after-school volunteer at the school with the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club, has been arrested on child pornography charges.According to the government’s complaint, on December 29, 2011, FBI special agents downloaded several videos and images depicting child pornography from shared directories that the defendant maintained on a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program. On January 13, 2012, FBI special agents executed a search warrant of the defendant’s residence in Brooklyn. During the search, agents seized, among other items, a computer and two external hard drives from the defendant’s bedroom. The defendant admitted to agents that he has been using a P2P file sharing program to download and share child pornography for approximately seven years, and that he has collected and saved over 1,000 digital files on his computers containing child pornography. The defendant was arrested on January 13, 2012, and had an initial appearance in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on child pornography shipping and transportation charges.The defendant’s arrest last night stems from the FBI’s forensic examination of the computer equipment that was seized from the defendant’s bedroom on January 13, 2012. As alleged in the criminal complaint filed today, that examination revealed that in between approximately January 2008 and January 2011, the defendant, in addition to downloading and sharing child pornography with others on the P2P file sharing program, was also producing child pornography. Among the videos and images that the defendant allegedly produced is a video of the defendant touching a child’s penis and a video of the defendant spanking a naked child. Both incidents appeared to have occurred in a school classroom.
Brooklyn Ink: FBI Arrests Brooklyn Teacher on Child Porn Charges (Feb 7 2012) A teacher’s aide at a Brooklyn school was arrested again Monday by the FBI and charged with making child pornography videos of students he was assaulting at the grade school where he worked ...
Queens Courier: FBI busts teacher’s aide for allegedly making child porn with students (Feb 7 2012) A teacher’s aide at a Brooklyn school was arrested again yesterday by the FBI and charged with making child pornography videos of students he was assaulting at the grade school where he worked, authorities said today. It is the second time in the last two weeks that FBI agents have charged Taleek Brooks with offenses linked to illegally possessing films of underage children engaged in sexual acts.
Fox News: New York City teacher's aide charged with making child porn in school (Feb 7 2012) A New York City teacher's aide was accused Tuesday of making videos of himself spanking one naked child and fondling another in an elementary school classroom. Taleek Brooks, who was first charged last month in the federal child pornography case, was re-arrested Monday night after the FBI said it had discovered additional evidence on his computer ... The videos included two taken in a school classroom, one of Brooks touching a child's genitals and another of him spanking a naked child, the complaint says.
New York Daily News: Teacher’s aide made pornographic video inside school: FBI (Feb 7 2012) A Brooklyn teacher's aide who dressed up in an bunny costume at Easter and led an all-boys dance group has been accused of producing a trove of kiddie porn — some of it inside a classroom. Taleek Brooks, 40, an aide at Public School 243 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was arrested Tuesday after the FBI found disturbing images on his computer of him fondling a boy's genitals and spanking a naked child, officials said. FBI officials said Brooks admitted making his sick videos and photos and sharing them with online perverts for as long seven years.
CBS News: FBI: NYC teacher's aide sexually abused, videotaped kids (Feb 7 2012) Federal authorities say a New York City teacher's aide made a video of himself spanking a naked child in a classroom. Taleek Brooks was arrested Monday for the second time in less than a month on child pornography charges. Following the latest arrest, prosecutors accused Brooks on Tuesday of producing the spanking video and one of him fondling another child in a classroom ... A criminal complaint filed last month accused Brooks of sending pornographic photos and videos of children to an undercover agent he met online. The complaint says one of the images was of a man having sex with a boy who appeared to be about 10.
New York Post: FBI busts Brooklyn teacher's aide for allegedly making child porn with students (Feb 7 2012) A teacher’s aide at a Brooklyn school was arrested again yesterday by the FBI and charged with making child pornography videos of students he was assaulting at the grade school where he worked, authorities said today. t is the second time in the last two weeks that FBI agents have charged Taleek Brooks with offenses linked to illegally possessing films of underage children engaged in sexual acts. After his first arrest in mid-January, Brooks allegedly confessed that he had assembled more than 1,000 pornographic images of young children on his computers, according to a report filed by Brooklyn federal prosecutors.
NBC News: Brooklyn teacher's aide arrested on sex abuse charges (Feb 7 2012) A teacher's aide in Brooklyn who was arrested last month on charges of distributing child pornography has been arrested by the FBI again for allegedly sexually abusing children in the school where he worked, NBC New York has learned ... After his first arrest, FBI officials said they searched Brooks' home. Officials said they discovered videos that allegedly showed him in the school molesting children. Last month, Brooks was arrested for allegedly possessing and distributing more than 1,000 images of child pornography.
DNAinfo: Ex-Teacher’s Aide Taleek Brooks Allegedly Produced Child Porn in School (Feb 7 2012) A former teacher’s aide at a Bedford-Stuyvesant elementary school who was busted last month for possessing lewd pictures of children has been re-arrested for producing kiddie porn in a classroom, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Taleek Brooks, 40, worked as a teacher’s aide at P.S. 243, The Weeksville School on Dean Street and Troy Avenue — and was an after-school volunteer with the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club.
UK Daily Mail: Teacher's aide arrested on child porn charges AGAIN after FBI discovers he 'filmed child porn inside elementary school' (Feb 7 2012) Forty-year-old Taleek Brooks, a teacher’s aide at PS 243, The Weeksville School, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was arrested on Monday night for production of child pornography. Among the videos and images that the defendant allegedly produced is a video of the defendant touching a child’s penis and a video of the defendant spanking a naked child, according to a statement from the FBI. According to the government’s complaint, on December 29, 2011, FBI special agents downloaded several videos and images depicting child pornography from shared directories that the defendant maintained on a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program. On January 13, 2012, FBI special agents executed a search warrant of Brooks' Brooklyn home.
NY Times: F.B.I. Seeks More Abuse Victims at School (Feb 8 2012) Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation returned to a Brooklyn elementary school on Wednesday to continue an inquiry into a teacher’s aide who was arrested this week after being accused of molesting children, possibly inside the school, and to search for more victims, law enforcement officials said ... The aide, Taleek Brooks, 40, who had worked at the school since 1995, had been out on bail after being arrested in January and charged with possession of child pornography. He was arrested again on Monday, and charged with producing child pornography, after federal agents discovered that videos on a computer taken from his home showed him engaging in sexual acts with students, law enforcement officials said. The videos appeared to have been made inside P.S. 243, the officials said.
NBC New York: Parents Come Forward With More Possible Victims of Teacher's Aide (Feb 8 2012) Several parents have come forward to report their kids may have had inappropriate contact with a teacher's aide accused of making child pornography at a Brooklyn school, according to a law enforcement official. The FBI spent the day at PS 243 in Crown Heights on Wednesday, meeting with administrators and parents. Investigators also toured various classrooms to try and match up video they have from the computer of Taleek Brooks, a teacher's aide at the school, who has been arrested for making child pornography.
CNN: N.Y. elementary school aide accused of making child porn (Feb 8 2012) A New York teacher's aide previously accused of distributing child pornography has been arrested again, this time on a charge of making such pornography, possibly on school grounds. Taleek Brooks, 40, had been employed at Weeksville Elementary School in Brooklyn since 1995 and volunteered at an after-school program there with the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club ... According to the complaint, the FBI found photos and videos showing Brooks spanking a naked boy inside a classroom and touching another boy. Last month, FBI agents searched Brooks' home and discovered more than a thousand lewd photographs and videos, authorities said. They said Brooks told them he had been collecting the material for at least seven years. At the time, they said, Brooks admitted that he viewed and traded child pornography on daily basis.
Wall Street Journal: Parents Stunned by Child-Porn Charges Against School Worker (Feb 8 2012) Taleek Brooks, 40 years old, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday and accused of making and trading sexual images and videos depicting children over a seven-year period. Two of the videos appeared to have been recorded inside a school, according to court documents.
Gothamist: Teacher Accused Of Making Child Porn: "A Good Neighbor," "Very Nice" (Feb 8 2012) Parents and families meanwhile, seemed stunned and angered while students didn't seem to know what to think. For every furious parent ("I think it’s disgusting, really," said one, "It’s a shame. Our kids are not safe anymore in these schools. It’s really ridiculous," said another) there is another kid with sweet stories about Brooks to tell. "He very nice and he let you do stuff inside the gym," one student told CBS. "And he teaches people how to dance," another added. And, because you can't have this kind of story without a surprised neighbor, here you go: "All I know is my man is a good neighbor," a 21-year-old neighbor of Brooks in Bed-Stuy said. "He never seemed like that type of person."
CBS News: FBI continues investigating NYC teacher's aide accused of sexually abusing kids (Feb 8 2012) FBI agents are expected to be at a Brooklyn high school on Wednesday to continue investigating a teacher's aide accused of making pornographic child videos on school grounds. Taleek Brooks was arrested Monday for the second time in less than a month on child pornography charges after FBI agents say they found evidence he took videos of himself sexually abusing children inside a classroom where he worked at P.S. 243 in Crown Heights.
WSBT / PIX 11: Teacher's Aide Accused Of Making Child Porn Inside BK School (Feb 8 2012) First accused of possessing and distributing child pornography, a Brooklyn man at P.S. 243 is now accused of producing child pornography videos in a classroom ... In addition to his duties as a school aide at The Weeksville School in Brooklyn, he is an after-school volunteer at the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club. Facing several charges that carry heavy penalties, Brooks faces a minimum of 15 years in prison if convicted of production of child pornography.