A former teacher at Chambersburg High School who photo-shopped images of students on to pornographic images of children is going to prison. Jeffrey Schmutzler, 43, of Fayetteville, was sentenced yesterday to 108 months’ imprisonment, a $15,000 fine and ten years of supervised release following his release from prison after pleading guilty to possession and receipt of child pornography on July 29, 2013.
According to U.S. Attorney Peter Smith, in March of 2013, federal and state law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at the defendant’s home in Fayetteville and found several thousand videos and images of material containing child pornography, including 1425 images Schmutzler created using existing child pornographic images and Photo-shopping the cropped images of heads from 136 students from Chambersburg High School.
This case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Pennsylvania State Police and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daryl F. Bloom.