Report: Former Mt. Carmel ES Principal Convicted of Child Sex Crime

A former Douglas County elementary school principal who was caught in a GBI sting last spring, has been convicted of trying to arrange sex via the Internet with a 13-year-old girl.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported John Harold McGill was convicted Tuesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta. He is expected to be sentenced in February.

McGill is the former principal at Mount Carmel Elementary School.

McGill was one of 14 people arrested in a GBI child sex sting operation in early March that targeted people who allegedly use the internet to have sex with children. “Operation Broken Heart” involved 37 law enforcement agencies.

McGill, 57, was charged under the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Prevention Act of 1999, the GBI said in a statement after the arrests.

In March, a member of the Metro Atlanta Child Exploitation Task Force who posed online as the mother of a 13-year-old told a DeKalb County magistrate judge that McGill answered a Craigslist ad, and subsequent emails and texts between the two led him to a Lithonia residence, where he was arrested.

The officer, an Alpharetta Police detective, said McGill “had a condom in his possession” and was hoping to teach a 13-year-old girl “how to be with a man.”

See also:

• Accused Principal Wanted to Teach 13-Year-Old ‘How to Be With a Man’
• Douglas County Principal Arrested on Child Sex Charges
• Douglas School Board Names Interim Principal at Mt. Carmel…
• Accused Principal Scheduled in DeKalb County Court
• Arrest Warrant for Principal Charged in Child Sex Sting: ‘He Taught Other Girls’