Officer
arrested for child porn
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) - A police officer was
arrested Thursday for child pornography and sending improper messages to a teen
girl.
According to Sheriff D.W. Warren with the Gloucester County
Sheriff's Office, a 17-year-old victim and her mother contacted authorities
Jan. 14 regarding a text message the teen received from a man she had met
online last year.
Warren said that man, 39-year-old John Andrew Steele, had
been texting back and forth with the teen since they met online in December.
The teen and her mother allege in a text message, Steele asked the teen to send
him nude pictures of herself.
When authorities arrived to Steele's Virginia Beach home
Wednesday evening, they found "digital evidence," and charged Steele
with two counts of child pornography.
He was also charged on two counts of use of a communications
device to solicit a minor for certain sexual offenses in relation to the text
message sent to the Gloucester teen.
Steele is behind bars without bond.