The State - News from June 14, 1987

Fresno police have “just scratched the tip of the iceberg” in their investigation of charges that an elementary school principal took pornographic pictures of female students, a department spokesman said. The principal, Loren K. Ebersole, 55, has resigned in the wake of a criminal complaint charging that he photographed third- through sixth-grade girls at Burroughs Elementary School in various stages of undress. Investigators who searched Ebersole’s home found other photographs of “still-unidentified females,” Sgt. Richard Desmond said. Officers seized “thousands of pictures,” he said, including some video cassettes. Police said the pictures appear to have been taken in school settings. During a career of more than three decades with Fresno Unified School District, Ebersole taught at six elementary schools and was principal at four others.