A teacher in Mesquite Independent School District is in jail for possessing child sexual abuse material.
Chad Michael Beery, a resident of Heath, was arrested and charged with possessing child pornography (more than 10 and fewer than 50 images) and possessing visual material depicting sexual assault. Both are felony offenses.
Beery is an Academy Option teacher at Mesquite Academy, an “untraditional” accelerated learning campus for Mesquite ISD middle and high school students in grades 8 through 12.
Online records show Beery has worked for Mesquite ISD since 2019.
Beery became certified to teach math and special education in 2018. His teaching certificate is currently under review by the Texas Education Agency.
Mesquite ISD has not yet responded to a request for more information.
Beery was booked into the Rockwall County Jail on November 3. Bond was set at $750,000—$250,000 for the first charge and $500,000 for the second.
Local online media outlet Rockwall County News First broke the story.
In just the past few years, hundreds of Texas educators have been accused of sex crimes involving students and other minors—including possessing, producing, and distributing child sex abuse material.
Thousands of educator sexual misconduct complaints have been reported to the TEA since the agency began keeping organized records in 2021.
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