AUGUSTA (AP) — A former Maine middle school teacher who originally pleaded guilty to a felony child pornography charge has withdrawn that plea and instead admitted to a lesser offense that allows him to avoid jail time.
The Kennebec Journal reported that Christopher Brown, a former Monmouth Middle School fifth-grade teacher, pleaded guilty a year ago to felony possession of sexually explicit material depicting children under 12 and theft of a school laptop.
But on Tuesday, under a deal reached a year ago with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor possession of sexually explicit materials depicting children under 16. He received a one-year suspended jail sentence and two years of probation.
The 56-year-old Brown was arrested in June 2011.
Police say none of the images was of local children.
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