Ex-teacher accused of producing child porn

The former Walker teacher also was investigated in 2016 for child molestation.

LaFAYETTE — A former Walker County teacher who was investigated in 2016 for child molestation was arrested in Alabama on Wednesday for allegedly producing child pornography in the late 1990s.

A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Northern District in Alabama stated:

“A 54-year-old Muscle Shoals, Alabama resident was arrested on September 27, on a federal criminal complaint charging him with producing child pornography, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town of the Northern District of Alabama.

“According to the complaint affidavit, between Aug. 1, 1997, and Oct. 15, 1998, Charles Mark McCormack used a minor, born in or about 1992, to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography, by surreptitiously videotaping the minor urinating in a bathroom in his residence.”

In May 2016, McCormack was under investigation by federal authorities after being accused of child molestation in the past, according to Walker County Sheriff’s Department records.

At that time, Sheriff Steve Wilson said his department assisted with the investigation of McCormack, a Chattanooga Valley Elementary kindergarten teacher.

McCormack had been investigated twice before May 2016 for crimes involving children, but there was never enough evidence to prosecute the teacher, Wilson said.