A former music teacher is facing more than 100 years in jail for sexually abusing young students.
Lawrence
Joynes, 56, pleaded guilty Monday in Montgomery County to abusing 14
young students in his classroom at New Hampshire Estates Elementary
School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Joynes had been a teacher in
Montgomery County Schools for 27 years. Monday he admitted taking
sexually explicit videos of children from kindergarten to second grade.
In 2013 Joynes was arrested at his home in Dundalk, Maryland, in a federal investigation into distribution of child pornography.
He
served one year in Baltimore County and then was transferred to
Montgomery County to face charges there. Investigators discovered that
Joynes had sex with a seventh grader at Eastern Middle School in the
early 1990s. He hid from his victim in that case by faking his own
death, but she later found her former teacher and reported him to
police. He faced a second-degree rape charge and Monday pleaded guilty
to child sex abuse in that case.
Published at 12:14 AM EDT on May 12, 2015
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