Former Teacher Sentenced for Possessing Child Pornography

Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Brian A. Mohr, 38, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for possession of child pornography.  Mohr was sentenced to 76 months in prison and then begin a seven-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.  Mohr will also be required to register as a sex offender.  Mohr was also ordered to pay $8,600 in special assessments.

In December 2019, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was contacted by the Grand Island Police Department (GIPD) regarding an ongoing child pornography investigation indicating that a male student at Grand Island Northwest High School was using fraudulent social media accounts to solicit nude photographs of other males at the high school by pretending to be a female high school student. The male student would then use the photographs sent by the students to extort and seek more sexually explicit images.

During the investigation, law enforcement determined that the male student had been in communication with Mohr, a teacher at Grand Island Northwest High School. Between July 2019, and December 2019, the male student sent approximately 41 nude images constituting child pornography as defined by federal law to Mohr through a phone app.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the Grand Island Police Department.