DSP News Release: Bridgeville Woman Arrested on Obscenity Charge

Location: Sussex Technical High School, 17099 County Seat Highway, Georgetown, DE

Date of Occurrence:  Friday, May 13, 2011

Defendant:

-Meagan R. Gordon, 22, Bridgeville, DE    

Charge:

-Providing Obscene Material to a Person under the Age of 18

Resume: 

Georgetown, DE- Delaware State Police Youth Aid detectives have arrested a 22 year old Bridgeville, DE woman following a fourth month obscenity investigation.

The investigation began in May of this year after the principal of the Sussex Technical High School located in Georgetown, DE, received a complaint from the mother of a fifteen year old student of the school. The mother advised that her son had been communicating through text messages to a person she believed to be a teacher at the high school. The mother further advised that from the contents of the text messages, she believed that her son had viewed several inappropriate pictures of the teacher.

Detectives learned that the 15 year old student had obtained the cellular phone of Meagan R. Gordon while at lunch at the school on Friday, May 13, and had responded to a bathroom with the phone. Gordon was a substitute teacher at the school at the time. The student, while in the bathroom, went through Gordon’s photographs that were on the phone and had observed several pictures showing her undressed. The student then returned the phone to Gordon. It was also learned that after the 15 year old returned to his class in which Gordon was teaching after lunch, she again allowed him to view the photographs. Gordon also exchanged phone numbers with the student.

Detectives made contact with Gordon and obtained her cellular phone which was then turned over to detectives in the Delaware State Police High Tech Crimes Unit for examination.

On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 detectives arrested Meagan Gordon and charged her with one count of providing obscene material to a person under the age of eighteen. She was arraigned at the Sussex County Court of Common Pleas and released on $1,500.00 unsecured bail.

Please refer Meagan Gordon employment related questions to the Sussex Technical District Office.

Released Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 4:50 p.m.