Ex-teacher pleads guilty to sex charge
Published: Wed, May. 09, 2007 05:01PM
Modified Wed, May. 09, 2007 05:35PM
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closeA former Chapel Hill middle school teacher pleaded guilty today to a charge stemming from an August incident in which he showed up at the house of a 15-year-old boy whom he met online.
David Campbell Jones, 47, who at the time of this arrest was a teacher at Phillips Middle School, a football coach and Boy Scout leader, pleaded guilty in federal district court in Greensboro today to enticement of a minor, a felony with a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike DeFranco.
In August, Orange County Sheriff's deputies arrested Jones as he was walking up to the boy's house with personal lubricant, condoms and a digital camera. Investigators seized his computers, on which they found tens of thousands of images of child pornography, according to search warrants.
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Jones' sentencing is scheduled for August 29, according to a news release.
Staff writer Jessica Rocha can be reached at 932-2008 or jrocha@newsobserver.com
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