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Ex-substitute teacher arrested for child porn, police say

Police arrested Michael Scott Porter of Newport News for child pornography (HNNDaily Photo/ Courtesy of the Newport News Police Department)
Michael Scott Porter (HNNDaily Photo/ Courtesy of the Newport News Police Department)

NEWPORT NEWS — Police here said a former public school substitute teacher was arrested Friday in connection with a child pornography case.

The police department’s Special Victims Unit on Friday executed a search warrant for the home of 50-year-old Michael Scott Porter in Newport News and found child pornography, authorities said.

Porter was arrested and charged with three counts of possession of child pornography.

Porter, a former substitute teacher for Newport News Public Schools, was also involved in the public school’s Mid-Atlantic Teen Challenge, police said.

He is being held in the Newport News Jail without bond, according to the jail’s online booking sheet.

Further information about the case was not immediately released.

Julia Marsigliano
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Julia Marsigliano is a multimedia reporter for WYDaily. She covers everything on the Peninsula from local government and law enforcement agencies to family-run businesses and weather updates. Before WYDaily, she covered Hampton and Newport News for WYDaily’s sister publication, HNNDaily before both publications merged in December 2018. Julia was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to Long Island, New York in 2001. A true New Yorker, she loves pizza, bagels and good Chinese food. Send comments, tips and other tidbits to julia@localvoicemedia.com. You can follow her on Twitter at @jmarsigliano

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