Brooklyn high school teacher arrested for allegedly producing child pornography

BROOKLYN -- (WPIX) -- A Brooklyn high school teacher was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of making child pornography and using Facebook to lure his alleged victims, authorities said.

Jonathan Deutsch, a teacher at a high school in Manhattan Beach, N.Y. faces five counts of sexual exploitation of a child, according to the United States Attorney Eastern District of New York. If convicted, he faces a minimum of 15 years in prison.

Starting in January of 2017, the 34-year-old suspect allegedly contacted hundreds of Facebook users who appeared to be minors. He had sexual conversations with at least 45 of them, officials said. The victims, none of whom were Deutsch's students, range in age from 10 to 16 years old, officials said.

He often instructed the children and teens to send him videos and photos of them performing sexually explicit acts, authorities said. He allegedly sent minors sexual photos that he told the victims were of himself.