Former Teacher Gets Jail in Child Porn Case
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A former elementary school teacher was ordered Monday to serve three months in jail for downloading and possessing child pornography.
James Robertson, 56, who was a fourth-grade teacher at White Oak Elementary in Westlake Village, apologized during his sentencing hearing and told a judge he did not realize that he was committing a crime when he printed sexually explicit images of children on his computer.
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