An Austin elementary school teacher arrested twice for possessing hundreds of thousands of child sexual abuse images now faces federal charges.
Carl David Innmon, 50, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of possession of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography.
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
Innmon taught fifth grade at Baranoff Elementary School in Austin Independent School District at the time of his first arrest in March on a state charge of possessing more than 50 images or videos of child pornography—a first-degree felony.
The teacher allegedly possessed more than 365,000 images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), commonly called child pornography. The images included children being penetrated by adults. Three showed an infant and two girls between the ages of four and seven.
Innmon was arrested again in March and charged with possession of child pornography with a previous conviction, a second-degree felony, and possession or promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child, a state jail felony.
Police said the teacher used an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator to alter photos of students taken in his classroom, making them sexually explicit. His collection included AI-generated images of two students from Baranoff Elementary.
A state measure to crack down on AI-generated CSAM passed the Senate in March but is stalled in a House committee.
State records show Innmon does not hold a Texas teaching certificate, and he is not shown as “under investigation” on the Do Not Hire Registry of individuals ineligible to work in a public school.
According to Austin ISD officials, Innmon also worked as a substitute teacher at 20 other schools in the district.
Innmon is married with two children. Following his arrests, his wife filed for divorce.
In just the past few years, hundreds of Texas teachers have been accused of sex crimes involving children, including possessing, producing, and distributing child sexual abuse material.
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