NEW YORK
Syracuse.com
By Samantha House | shouse@syracuse.com
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Shocked. Sickened. Saddened.
That’s how Michael Collins and his wife felt when they heard a teacher’s aide at their son’s school, All Saints Elementary School, was accused of sexually exploiting a baby.
When they learned the FBI was investigating whether Emily Oberst had victimized students, their disgust turned to fear.
“You hurt for the girl, the victim. That’s where your heart goes,” Collins, of Westvale, said Tuesday. “And then you’re also angry because that person happened to work with your child very closely.”
Oberst, 23, of Syracuse, and Jason Kopp, 40, of Liverpool, were charged this weekend with sexually exploiting a baby girl and sharing photographs of the abuse on an online messaging app. The child pornography was shared with an undercover federal officer on Kik, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Oberst was fired after her arrest. She and Kopp are in the Onondaga County Justice Center without bail.
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