NY teacher who 'prefers' underage girls hid images on secret calculator app: docs
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A teacher, Kostas Fekkas, who allegedly admitted to an undercover FBI agent that her "prefers" underage girls, hid sexually explicit images and videos in a secret app, court docs say.
Kostas Fekkas, 34, was a teacher at a Manhattan charter school at the time of his arrest on Sept. 14, and he had worked at several other schools in the Bronx and neighboring suburban Westchester County, New York, federal prosecutors said. Chris Eberhart is a crime and US news reporter for Fox News Digital. Email tips to chris.eberhart@fox.com or on Twitter @ChrisEberhart48.
Investigators allegedly found graphic sexual messages and child pornography from a 12-year-old girl hidden on an app made to look like a calculator, which prompted a three-month undercover sting in which he allegedly admitted to being a teacher during a message exchange.
When "Riley," the undercover FBI agent, said, "I'm in 8th (grade)," Fekkas allegedly responded, "Cool. I usually cut off at 9th grade but you're insanely gorgeous," the criminal complaint says.
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