Crime & Courts

Troopers arrest seventh-grade teacher in Tuluksak on child porn charges

A seventh-grade teacher in the Southwest Alaska village of Tuluksak was arrested Saturday afternoon on child pornography charges, according to Alaska State Troopers.

John Paul Donald Douglas, 37, faces one charge of distributing child pornography and eight charges of possessing child pornography, troopers said.

Douglas was a teacher at the Yupiit School District's Tuluksak School, according to state prosecutors.

Prosecutors issued a statement Thursday asking the public to help find Douglas after a grand jury handed up the nine charges against him.

Douglas is accused of using a "peer-to-peer file-sharing software to possess and download videos involving prepubescent female children engaged in sex acts," prosecutors said.

Troopers arrested Douglas at his home in Tuluksak around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Tim DeSpain, troopers spokesman.

Douglas was taken to the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center in Bethel "without further incident," troopers said.

Tegan Hanlon

Tegan Hanlon was a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News between 2013 and 2019. She now reports for Alaska Public Media.

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