A Las Cruces middle school coach accused of sharing and downloading child pornography will never again work for Las Cruces Public Schools, according to district officials Monday afternoon.
Erik Khan, 32, worked at Picacho Middle School as a part-time 8th grade boy’s basketball coach and volunteered with the 9th grade boys team at Mayfield.
Khan was arrested and charged with 15 counts of sexual exploitation of a child last Wednesday.
“We do look for things and we hope we can catch it before hand, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way,” said Jo Galvan with Las Cruces Public Schools.
The Las Cruces Police SWAT team searched Khan’s home for child pornography last Wednesday after police said they received a tip from the Department of Homeland Security.
Police said they found hundreds of child porn files on his home computer dated between September of 2011 and May of this year, the same time he was employed by LCPS.
District officials said anybody working for the school system or volunteering has to pass background checks before they are allowed to spend any time with children.
They said Khan met all the necessary requirements when he first began volunteering.
“He went through the appropriate checks,” Galvan said. “It looks for state and federal background checks and he did have that conducted when he first began in 2006.”
LCPS is conducting their own investigation similar to police and Homeland Security. They said they have no evidence of any Las Cruces children being on those files.
Khan remains at the Dona Ana County Detention Center without bond.
Source : ktsm
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