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Riverview Elementary School Principal Baker Acted After Arrest For Soliciting Minor

Author Meredith

A Riverview elementary school principal was arrested Thursday after being accused of sending sexually explicit texts to an undercover detective pretending to be a 15-year-old male!

According to the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office, Derrick Neil McLaughlin, 41, was arrested and Baker Acted for the “transmission of harmful material to a minor, unlawful use of a two-way communications device, and use of computer services or devices to solicit certain illegal acts.”

McLaughlin initiated the conversation on socials and thought he was chatting with a 15-year-old male and tried to entice the teenager in sexual acts.

Parents of students at Warren Hope Dawson Elementary School were notified by Hillsborough County Public Schools about their principal being arrested for soliciting a minor.

Sheriff Chad Chronister said, “It’s sickening that a trusted member of our community, a school principal, would take advantage of a child for his own self-gratification. Thankfully, it was not a child, but one of our detectives, who was on the receiving end of his obscene messages. No child should be subjected to the disturbing behavior put on display by McLaughlin.”

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