TALLAHASSEE, FL—Jonathan Harry Lee Williams of Tallahassee, Florida, pled guilty today to using a minor to produce child pornography and to possessing child pornography. The plea was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

Williams, the former registrar at Ruediger Elementary School, was arrested on December 11, 2014, after FBI agents executed a search warrant at his home. During the search, law enforcement seized Williams’s smart phones, which contained child pornography.

Today in court, Williams admitted that he had used his smart phone to take sexually explicit photos of two children at his home between the summer and fall of 2014. Williams uploaded the images to a “photo hosting” website. Williams also admitted that he had been downloading nude photographs of children from the Internet for the past ten years.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jason Beaton. Sentencing is scheduled for May 15, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. in Tallahassee before United States District Judge Mark E. Walker.

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