KINGMAN — A local judge is allowing a former Kingman school teacher charged in a child pornography case to leave the state to be with family over the Easter holiday while new details in the case surfaced during an April 17 hearing at the Mohave County Law and Justice Center.
Deputy Mohave County attorney Karolina Czaplinska informed Judge Doug Camacho that Allen Long’s case is different than most that involve perpetrators securing sexual abuse material involving random minors by downloading from sites to their electronic devices.
In most of those, the offenders don’t directly communicate with the victims who are engaged in sexual relations that are filmed of photographed in broadly disseminated. Czaplinska said Long, 29, solicited inappropriate images of young girls during social media exchanges.
Czaplinska said investigators determined that Long convinced 11- and 12-year-old girls to send him sexually explicit images. She said one victim has been identified as a resident of Louisiana and another of Indiana.
Czaplinska objected to the defendant’s travel request, particularly to his mother’s place in Indiana, where conceivably, he might attempt contact with the Indiana victim.
Defense attorney Matthew Bartz noted his client intends to enter a mandatory prison plea agreement on June 2, and that this would be his last opportunity to see his family for some time before being incarcerated.
Judge Camacho granted the travel request but directed Long to have no contact with children, and make no attempt to contact the Indiana victim. Camacho ordered that Long must return by April 22 and that the Court and prosecutor must be notified when he’s back in Arizona.
Long quickly lost his Kingman Unified School District job following his on-campus arrest last November at Cerbat Elementary School. He was charged with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
