Ex HPHS Substitute Facing Child Porn Charges Has Travel Request Denied

A former Highland Park High School substitute teacher on home confinement facing charges of cyberstalking and possession of child pornography had a request to travel to Florida with his parents in January denied by a judge this week.

Judge Daniel Shanes, who already denied a request by Steven Habay to leave his parents home in Highland Park for short intervals, was not amenable to this request either.

Habay was arrested on felony cyberstalking and misdemeanor electronic harassment charges in May following an incident where he allegedly posted “disparaging rants” after the school decided to stop hiring him. Two months later, he was taken into custody on child pornography charges when officials found images of children older than 13 on his computer while investigating the earlier incident.

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