Music Teacher Took Nude Pics Of 100 or More Students

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A Bethesda music teacher accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old student and taking nude photographs of her had dozens and perhaps hundreds of photographs that depict teenage girls in various stages of undress, authorities said.

Detectives believe Carl E. Fritts Jr., co-owner of Bethesda Music, took nude photographs of as many as 100 students during the 13 years he taught guitar at the store, police said.

Fritts, 55, was charged Monday with child abuse, possession of child pornography and soliciting a subject for child pornography. Montgomery County police arrested him after the parents of one of his students, a 13-year-old girl, contacted authorities.

"There is really no way of knowing exactly how many students" were photographed, said Montgomery County police spokeswoman Lucille Baur. "But detectives believe it is over 50 and perhaps as many as 100."

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Fritts began photographing the 13-year-old guitar student in January, according to an affidavit filed in Montgomery County District Court. The girl told police that Fritts fondled her breast on multiple occasions while she played guitar, telling her he was doing it so she could learn "how to play guitar when there were distractions," according to the affidavit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43363-2004Apr1.html

This guy belongs UNDER the jail. :grr:

Child molesters are the lowest of the low in prison, and the guards always make sure the other prisoners know.

these stories take so long to come out. 13 years? 100+ kids?!? And over the LAST 13 years, when child molestation cases, etc have permeated every part of the media and are in the foreground of American consciousness?

I'm not taking up for the guy or saying I don't believe the evidence, but doesn't it seem remarkable that 100 kids were photographed in the buff DURING MUSIC PRACTICE and none of them ever divulged it until now?

Christ only knows what he told them/threatened...

I was 12 once, and I took guitar lessons too. I can assure you that, even in that more "innocent" time (the 1980's, lol) I knew damned well that nude photography was not part of the lesson

:wtf:

I too am not trying to excuse or stick up for him, in ANY WAY, it just seems bizarre that this scheme worked even once.

but it worked 100 times????

:wtf: