TEACHER'S Aide Faces More Charges in All Saints Child Porn Case

By John O'Brien
Syracuse.com
May 26, 2016

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Saints.jpg All Saints Elementary on Wilbur Avenue in Syracuse. A school aide Emily Oberst, 23, was fired Monday after being charged with sexually exploiting a 16-month-old girl. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com (Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com)

A federal grand jury today added more child pornography charges against a former teacher's aide at a Syracuse elementary school and day care center.

Emily Oberst, 23, was indicted on seven more counts of sexual exploitation of a child for the purpose of making child pornography and three more counts of distributing child pornography.

Oberst, of Syracuse, and Jason Kopp, 40, of Liverpool, were indicted two months ago on charges of sexually exploiting three children to make child pornography. The victims were a 16-month-old girl, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy, according to a federal indictment.

The new indictment doesn't include allegations involving any new victims.

The indictment filed in federal court today accuses Oberst of taking sexually explicit photos of the two girls 11 times between Nov. 6, 2014, and March 16, 2016. It also accuses her of distributing those pictures seven times over that same period.

Kopp pleaded guilty last week. Oberst is scheduled to go to trial in August.

One of the victims was a student at All Saints, according to sources. The FBI found naked photos of that child in a school bathroom at the school, the sources said.

All Saints fired Oberst after her arrest two months ago.

Oberst, of Syracuse, met Kopp online and the two were seeing each other romantically, sources said.

The investigation began March 4 when an undercover federal agent started texting on Kik with a user who turned out to be Kopp, court papers said.

Kik is an online messaging app that allows people to anonymously share photos,

messages and videos.

Kopp and an undercover federal agent had online conversations in which Kopp told him a female acquaintance had allowed him to have illicit contact with a baby girl, according to the FBI.

The FBI later identified the acquaintance as Oberst, court papers said.

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