NEW YORK
Syracuse.com
By Patrick Lohmann | plohmann@syracuse.com
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The 23-year-old woman who is accused of producing child pornography with an infant is an employee at a Syracuse elementary school.
School officials have declined to answer any questions about her employment or background.
Emily Oberst of Syracuse is accused of helping Jason Kopp, 40, of Liverpool, to sexually exploit a baby girl, according to federal prosecutors.
Oberst also allegedly sent explicit photos of the child to Kopp, including one labeled “4 John March 16”. John was the pseudonym of an investigator who authorities say caught Oberst and Kopp.
Oberst lists her employment on Facebook as being with an after-school program at All Saints Elementary School, and her mother, Janet, describes having Emily volunteer at the school from the age of 15 to 19, according to biographies on the school’s website.
School officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment Monday and asked a Syracuse.com reporter to leave the premises. Principal Rosalie Pollman said through an aide that she was “with students” all day Monday and could not comment. …
All Saints is a pre-kindergarten to sixth-grade independent school that opened in September 2006. It’s located in rented space in the former St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School, at 112 S. Wilbur Ave., near West Fayette Street.
The school was established after the Catholic Diocese closed St. Patrick’s School, and parents worked to establish the All Saints school. It offers a “Catholic curriculum” but cannot label itself a Catholic school without the blessing of a local bishop.
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