CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. (WSVN) - A Broward County Public Schools employee who has spent more than two decades working with children was arrested on multiple child pornography charges, according to Coral Springs Police.
Craig Rogers, 60, a physical education teacher at Westchester Elementary School, was taken into custody Wednesday morning on seven felony counts of possession of child pornography.
Investigators said their investigation began in May, when they received a cyber-tip from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
According to officials, Rogers had used a Kik social media account to share explicit images of children.
Court documents show some materials depict children as young as 6 years old.
Krystal, a mother who did not want her identity shown, said she had her two children attending Westchester Elementary before relocating.
“When I saw it, my heart absolutely sunk into my stomach,” she said.
Krystal said her daughter reported Rogers this past school year.
“She said she could hear it through the speaker, the shutter from the camera, and she says she turns around and looks and that he was photographing her and her friends,” she said.
According to BCPS, Rogers began teaching at Westchester Elementary in 2003 and became a physical education teacher in 2004.
In the probable cause documents, investigators said photos on Rogers’ Kik account showed what appeared to be Rogers’ office, equipment room at the school, as well as his diploma.
Detectives said the suspect also sent inappropiate photos of himself from his desk on school grounds. In those same documents, police said, “Chat messages were provided by Kik where the defendant calls himself a ‘pervert teacher,’ and ‘my favorite students are age 12 at my school.'”
Investigators said Rogers “also transmitted files to other Kik users that depicted clothed students engaging in physical education.”
Police were able to link Rogers to the Kik account through his IP address and the ankle monitor he was ordered to wear in connection to an unrelated case. In April, he was arrested and charged with stalking and making a false report of a commission of a crime. The suspect is accused of harassing and making false allegations ahainst his now former neighbors, a Coral Springs Police officer an his family, for a year and a half.
Officers arrested Rogers at his former home back in April in connection to the stalking case.
“There were police cars everywhere,” said neighbor Francesca Giudici.
Police also discovered Rogers had been renting a room at the Studio 6 Motel in Coral Springs, where they executed a search warrant and seized multiple electronic devices.
Rogers was taken into custody without incident.
Giudici thought Rogers wasn’t a nice neighbor, but she never expected the latest news.
“I worry about the kids that are my nieces, nephews and all that, that are young kids,” she said.
A spokesperson for BCPS released a statement that reads:
“Our district and school administration are deeply disturbed by the allegations and are cooperating fully with law enforcement in its investigation. The employee has been reassigned away from the school and students in April 2025, following his off-campus arrest on a different case.”
“You expect these adults to protect them, and to hear that something like this can happen is absolutely terrifying,” said Krystal.
BCPS did not immediately respond to 7News’ request for comment regarding Krystal’s claims.
Rogers is expected to go before a judge on Thursday.
Coral Springs Police urge anyone with relevant information about this investigation to contact Special Victims Unit Detective Nicole Hildebrandt at nhildebrandt@coralsprings.gov.
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