CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former Fayette County teacher was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Wednesday for distribution of child pornography.
Joshua Mark Taylor, 32, of Weirton, must also register as a sex offender and undergo 20 years of supervised release after his sentence.
Taylor, a teacher at Collins Middle School from approximately March 2013 to January 2014. pleaded guilty in 2013 to receiving child pornography on his cell phone. He admitted that in November of 2013, he exchanged many text messages with a 12-year-old girl who was a student at the school.
He also persauded the student to take sexually explicit pictures of herself and send them to him on his cell phone.
Taylor pleaded guilty to to distributing or attempting to distribute the sexually explicit images and receiving a sexually explicit image of the student through through interstate commerce.