Former NMS teacher hit with federal pornography charges

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June 5, 2009

By TRICIA NEAL, CJ Staff Writer The Commonwealth Journal Fri Jun 05, 2009, 12:46 AM EDT

He was cleared of sodomy charges three years ago, but things aren’t looking so promising for a former Pulaski County teacher this time.

Kenneth R. Shadoan, 30, who is now living in Carlisle, Ky., is facing federal child pornography charges after police say they found more than 25 videos showing a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct on a compact disc in his vehicle.

A criminal complaint was filed in U.S. District Court last week, and a federal arrest warrant was issued for Shadoan the same day.

He was arrested in May and charged with 25 counts of possession of child pornography. He is also accused of inappropriate contact with a 17-year-old male student — promising good grades in exchange for sexually explicit pictures.

Shadoan pleaded not guilty to the charges last month.

Shadoan is a former Northern Middle School math teacher. He was fired from there in 2005 after he was accused of sodomizing an 18-year-old male student in Berea College’s Upward Bound program during a camping trip to Cumberland Falls. He was acquitted of those charges in 2006.

Pulaski County Schools assistant superintendent Steve Butcher has said Paris Independent Schools contacted him when Shadoan was seeking a job there. Butcher told Paris school officials about Shadoan’s charge and declined to recommend him for the job.

Shadoan was fired from the Paris Independent School System immediately after his arrest last month. He had been teaching at Paris High School for the last three years.

WLEX in Lexington is reporting that Shadoan was arrested shortly before he was supposed to travel to New York to supervise young boys on a camping trip.

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