{"id":28022,"date":"2024-01-23T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/?p=28022"},"modified":"2024-01-23T14:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T19:02:24","slug":"teacher-charged-with-attempting-to-solicit-sex-act-from-14-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/2024\/01\/23\/teacher-charged-with-attempting-to-solicit-sex-act-from-14-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Charged With Attempting To Solicit Sex Act from 14-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas R. Carrah<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28024 alignright\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" src=\"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Carraher-150x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Carraher-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Carraher-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Carraher.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><strong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">er<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Howell Township man employed as a\u00a0 teacher in Tinton Falls has been arrested and charged with soliciting a sexual act for cash and sending sexually explicit media of himself to a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl he met online, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago said.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas R. Carraher, 26, is charged with attempted endangering the welfare of a child, attempted promotion of obscene material to a minor, and attempted criminal sexual contact.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the MCPO Internet Crimes Unit revealed that Carraher recently used a social media app in his atte<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">mpt to solicit the sex act and sent a graphic image and video of himself, after which he also attempted to solicit a graphic image from the person with whom he was communicating. He was arrested without incident yesterday and then transported to the Monmouth County Correctional Institution pending future proceedings in Monmouth County Superior Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carraher is employed as a teacher at the Mahala F. Atchison Elementary School in Tinton Falls, and also works as a basketball coach at the Shrewsbury Borough School.\u00a0 At this time, there is no indication that the aforementioned charges relate directly to any student or student-athlete at either school. Investigators are seeking additional information about Carraher\u2019s activities; anyone with such information is being asked to contact MCPO Detective Anthony Lacher at 800-533-7443.<\/p>\n<p>This case has been assigned to Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Competello. Carraher is being represented by Emeka Nkwuo, Esq., with an office in Freehold.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these charges, every defendant is presumed innocent, unless and until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, following a trial at which the defendant has all of the trial rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and state law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas R. Carraher A Howell Township man employed as a\u00a0 teacher in Tinton Falls has been arrested and charged with soliciting a sexual act for cash and sending sexually explicit media of himself to a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl he met online, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago said. Thomas R. Carraher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":20979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28026,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28022\/revisions\/28026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}