NJ Teacher Allegedly Sent Child Porn Video With ‘LOL’ Text

Authorities arrested a New Jersey teacher after she allegedly sent a group text message with a video of an adult woman’s hand touching an infant’s private parts and making baby sounds. The text message included a disclaimer, officials said: “Don’t call DYFS on me… but this is a throw back! Lol!!!”

The allegations facing Lizandra Rios, an elementary school teacher at Robert Menendez School in West New York, came to light when an FBI agent conducting a separate investigation stumbled upon a 2015 text she allegedly sent to five other people.

The video that accompanied the text was allegedly created on an iPhone in Montclair in June 2014, according to a federal criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York.

Rios was arrested on May 7 and charged with transportation of child pornography. School officials later placed her on administrative leave after the discovery of the alleged text message and video. She must undergo mental health therapy as a condition of her release from jail, according to The Jersey Journal.

Here’s what was on the video, according to the FBI agent who signed the criminal complaint:

“[The video] depicts an adult woman’s hand rubbing, grasping and massaging the [private parts] of a female baby who is wearing what appears to be a pink and white striped shirt and a white bib. The baby is naked below her belly button. The baby is laying on her back. Her face and body are visible to the camera. [In the video], a female voice can be heard and the female appears to be talking to the baby while rubbing, grasping and massaging her [private parts]. The female voice makes cooing and babytalk sounds.”

According to the criminal complaint, which The Jersey Journal shared with Patch, Rios allegedly sent the video to five recipients via a group text message with her “LOL” disclaimer a year after it was created.

Here’s part of the alleged text conversation that followed, the complaint charges:

• Recipient 1 - “I am afraid to open this!!!!”
• Rios – “Yessss be very afraid!!!!”
• Rios – “Damn, I just looked at it… It soooo bad.”
• Recipient 1 – “I deleted it… couldn’t go there! Lol.”
• Rios – I think it’s cute… Whatever [winking emoticon]”
• Rios – “You guys are too conservative for me lol.”

When FBI agents questioned Rios about the video, she allegedly acknowledged that she created it and sent it to other people via text message. FBI agents also used AT&T phone records, a public Facebook page and property records from the Township of West New York to link Rios to the creation of the video, the complaint states.

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