Former Teacher Charged with Sex Offenses: Baltimore County Police

A retired Carroll County schoolteacher who was employed as a swimming instructor at a Baltimore County summer camp was charged Wednesday with soliciting a minor for sex, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

Charles David Beaver, 58, of the 3000 block of Main Street in Manchester, was charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, prostitution and an attempted third-degree sex offense, according to online court records.

On Tuesday, a detective posing as a pimp began conversing online with Beaver upon learning that he wanted to pay for sex with 15- and 16-year-old boys, according to a statement from the Baltimore County Police Department.

When the detective assumed the identity of a 15-year-old boy online, Beaver indicated that he wanted to engage in sex with the boy, the statement said.

The detective said Beaver could meet the boys at a Baltimore County hotel, according to the statement.

When Beaver arrived at the hotel and knocked on the door Tuesday, he was taken into custody by an undercover detective, the statement said.

Beaver told detectives that he worked as an aquatics instructor at the summer camp for the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore and had been in various positions at the Park Heights and Owings Mills locations, according to police.

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore terminated Beaver "effective immediately," according to a statement its leadership officials issued Wednesday afternoon, saying they were "disturbed and deeply concerned."

The statement said that the Jewish Community Center uses a third party to conduct a "rigorous background investigation." According to online court records, this is Beaver's first charge in Maryland.

In addition to working at the center, Beaver had previously been a Carroll County teacher and a soccer coach, police said.

Beaver was a business education teacher at Westminster High School from 1978 until he retired in 2010, The Baltimore Sun reported.

The Maryland Child  Exploitation Task Force—which includes Baltimore County Police Department detectives, FBI agents and other local law enforcement—conducted the investigation, according to the report from the Baltimore County Police Department.

Police said Beaver is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $100,000 bail.

Anyone with information about Charles David Beaver may contact police at 410-307-2020.