Posted on 06/17/2022 8:15:36 PM PDT by TigerClaws
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- An Oahu school teacher is behind bars accused of distributing child pornography in incidents going back to 2019.
According to the criminal complaint document, 34-year-old Alden Bunag committed the alleged crimes from November 2019 through at least October 2021.
Federal investigators caught wind of the crimes in July 2021 after a cybertip led them to a private school teacher in Philadelphia who had allegedly uploaded child pornography.
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FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Philadelphia teacher’s home and during that search discovered a device showing communication with someone under the display name “Alden.” Investigators say the two exchanged nearly 3,400 messages and hundreds of images and video files over the course of about seven months.
A further search of the Philadelphia teacher’s cellphone uncovered three videos showing an adult man and a minor boy engaged in sex acts, six non-pornographic photos showing Bunag’s students, and three anime photographs.
Investigators said, at this point in the investigation, it was unclear if Bunag was the man in the videos.
Based on the nature of Bunag’s chats with the Philadelphia teacher, investigators said they believed Bunag had sent videos of himself engaged in sex acts with a 13-year-old student. In some chats Bunag even claimed that he had sex with the teen boy at school during lunch breaks, investigators said.
On June 15, FBI agents in Honolulu served a search warrant at Bunag’s home. They also located Bunag as he was working as a summer school teacher at an unidentified Oahu high school.
During a voluntary interview, investigators say Bunag admitted that he had been having sex with a 13-year-old boy who was one of his former students, that he knew the boy was a minor, and that he used camera equipment to record the encounter. He also told investigators that he sent the video to the Philadelphia teacher and others using the messaging app Telegram.
Bunag told investigators he had distributed other child pornography involving other minors. He was arrested following the interview on one complaint of distribution of child pornography.
It is unclear if additional charges will be followed based on some of Bunag’s admissions to investigators.
Bunag made his initial court appearance on Thursday, June 16. He has a detention hearing set for June 21 and a preliminary hearing on June 27.
KITV4 has reached out to the Hawaii Department of Education regarding this case and on Bunag’s status as a teacher. So far, the DOE has not responded.
He needs to quickly identify as a woman teacher
Then everyone will say how cool she is and wish she was their teacher when they were in school
As long as it’s perfectly fine to hire trans sex workers to entertain the kiddies, does it really matter?
Okay, anyone got a wood chipper on Oahu?
Maybe he could just say he was Bill and Hillary’s aide on the Lolita Express. That should get him off.
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“I am Ghislane Maxwell”
True.
But still ouch.
You have to wonder how many times the school where he was working was informed about what he was doing to student and how many times they quietly dropped it into the circular file.
One Twitter’er noted his name is an anagram of “anal de bung”.
Well then, it’s settled. Let her out. 😀😀
And yet it would be OK with ‘the powers that be’ if this teacher showed pornography to the children in his / her/ its classes.
Such a surprise. “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit”. Everything that comes out of socialism stinks. It’s the whole moral relativity thing, I think.
A Sen. Hirino D-HA supporter?
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Why isn’t he charged with RAPE?
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