Suburban Teacher Charged With Solicting Teen Sex Online

Adult Posing As Teen Snares Suspect

NBC5.com/July 10, 2004

Palos Hills, Ill. -- A suburban high school teacher was charged with soliciting sex from a 13-year-old over the Internet, although the solicitation was allegedly made to an adult posing as a teen.

The adult was working with the Web site PervertedJustice.com. Although the group behind the Web site gives information to authorities, it works outside police agencies and is not sanctioned by them.

The teacher, 51-year-old James Leonard, has been a computer teacher at Stag High School, in Palos Hills, for 26 years.