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Teacher pleads guilty to child porn charges
Friday, March 14, 2008
COLUMBIA — A 48-year-old high school teacher from Aiken has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography and attempting to entice what he thought was a 13-year-old boy for sex.
Federal prosecutors say Timothy Brumit was actually talking to a police officer in Virginia over the Internet in January.
Authorities say Brumit sent more than 600 pieces of child pornography to the officer.
Prosecutors say Brumit also said he wanted to bring the boy to South Carolina to have sex and asked if he would leave his family to be with him.
Brumit faces 10 years to life in prison on the enticement charge and five years to 20 years in prison on the pornography count.
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This article has 15 comment(s)
Posted by prosperous_hb on March 14, 2008 at 7:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
All I can say is YUCK!!!!
Posted by jca on March 14, 2008 at 7:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
at least in this case no kids were actually involved. this was a sting. this was an internet sting i am guessing. thankfully no kids were involved or harmed.
yes kids are being attacked more and more. the internet makes it very easy for these pervs. anyone under 18 should be supervised every second their online. know what your kids arew doing where they are going online and who they are talking too. and make sure they know never ever give out personal info city school name their name age grade in school or even the school mascot. only takes a small amount of info for a predator to find and kill them. kids are to blame in the internet pedophile problem too.
Posted by olroofer on March 14, 2008 at 8:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Make him clean out the drainage systems under downtown for the rest of his life. He will do good with the scum!
Posted by ImplantedYankee on March 14, 2008 at 9:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Is it possible that these kind of sickos have always been around but just not reported? It seems like there has been a recent epidemic, and, if so, it seems important to investigate the causes. The rise of tabloid journalism and sensationalism, however (this paper is a great example), makes me wonder if the rise is not in incidence, but in reporting. At least if one good thing has come from turning our "news"papers into tabloids, it is greater awareness of issues like this, though, that too is potentially suspect. I don't think anyone ever doubted the existence of problems like this in the past -- it just wasn't fit to talk about.
Regardless -- I say castrate him. That will permanently cure him of his urges.
Posted by Girleygirl on March 14, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Implantedyankee- you are so correct. The internet has been around for 15 or more years so we do have "professional" child molesters that are coasting for kiddies. I think its great we have police agencies looking into it, but its not enough to stop criminals for logging into the internet looking for vulnerable kids. Spring break is next week and parents that have young teenagers need to warn them about the "friends" they meet online.....
Posted by quickthought on March 14, 2008 at 1:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
jca, "kids are to blame in the internet pedophile problem too." I think you have lost your mind! You must not have kids. Although this was a sting and some of you seem to think it is funny, this really happens to children. This is no joke. Children are killed, raped, tortured.
Most of the time I thoroughly enjoy hangin around in here reading what ya'll have to say, other times..........
Posted by bkeelin on March 14, 2008 at 2:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The darkness is getting Darker
Posted by CHRISJIII on March 14, 2008 at 2:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sad. What is going on with the teachers? First they raise hell about low pay and lack of respect so now they are coming for our children?
Posted by Deborah on March 14, 2008 at 2:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This is one sick puppy is all I can say.
Posted by RTC on March 14, 2008 at 3:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The internet has just made it easier for these perverts to get to our kids. They have always existed, but now they just go about it in a different way.
Since they have been assigning task forces solely for the purpose of monitoring and pursuing these internet predators, more arrests should be in the making.
Posted by AHLeland on March 14, 2008 at 4 p.m. (Suggest removal)
CHRISJ- Out of respect for the teaching profession as a whole, can we not call this guy a teacher? This is a wolf in sheep's clothing if I've ever heard of one.
Posted by jca on March 14, 2008 at 4:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
i do have kids. kids are to blame to some degree. kids are young and easily manipulated as well as naturally curious. they need to be protected and taught.
in my day it was dont answer the phone or open the door. now its that plus dont talk to people online we teach our kids never talk to strangers well this goes for the internet too. watch your kids i can only keep mine safe and i am
Posted by Girleygirl on March 14, 2008 at 5:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
JCA- NO YOU DID NOT GO THERE!!!!
These pervs or grown ass nasty sick adults pretending they are kids, so how can kids manipulate an adult to want to molest them? An adult should have better judgement and more common sense than a child. If a child ,and these are your words, are easily manipulated as well as curious why are we blaming kids for adults with sick appetites?
I will not blame a child for going on the internet and a nasty ass adult inticing them. Shame on the grown up!
We are suppose to protect our kids not blame them for someone's elses nasty thoughts.
Posted by RTC on March 14, 2008 at 6:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
AHLeland, I read a quote the other day that said: "There is no such thing as sheep in wolf's clothing; there are only homicidal sheep."
I thought that was pretty good, and I agree with what you said about calling this man a teacher.
Teacher of what? Perversion?
Posted by jca on March 14, 2008 at 9:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
the kids are to blame trust me they dont listen and they provoke these people go on to yahoo answers you will see thousands of questions from kids as young as 10 wanting to know how to seduce people on the web kids are to blame too. parents need to watch and protect them. kids lie and make these people believe their 18 and up.
yes the adults should know better. i wasa victim of child molestation and rape. i did nothing wrong. many of the kids dont but just as many do. kids hold some blame specially the teenage ones
these men and women who do this are sick they have a mental illness. they think they are teenagers themselves thety dont see this as wrong
and fyi geniuses this wasnt a 13 year old it was a cop this man didnt harm any kids hes stil a pervert and deserves jail time cause his intent was to rape a child but he didnt he was caught and stopped while many others are still attacking. oh and many of these adults are lied to and made ot believe the person they are talking to is of age bear that in mind too while your kids surf the web unattended your kid could be framing the next one