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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (WAVY.com) -- A Virginia Beach high school teacher has been charged with Possession of Child Pornography and is free on bond following his first appearance before a judge Tuesday afternoon.

36-year-old Michael Jablonski is on leave without pay from his job at Green Run High School.

In court Jablonski told a judge he was under treatment for depression and recounted sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a neighbor.

Michael Jablonski is charged with two counts of child pornography, allegedly found on a computer police seized from his apartment off Automne Circle. Court records show the crime happened April 1. The Green Run High School teacher and varsity girls volleyball coach did not commit any of the crimes at school, according to police.

"The evidence is unrefuted that he has been a teacher for almost 18 years. No one has ever made any complaints about his performance of his duties or any accusations against him as to how he's treated children," explained Jablonski's Attorney Larry Lockwood.

Jablonski's neighbor says he's a nice person. "He's a real quiet guy. Kept to himself. He had two little kids, my son and his son would play. It really shocks me he would have that kind of stuff."

A judge ordered Jablonski free on $1,500 bond, under the conditions that he have no contact with kids and continue psychiatric treatment.

If convicted Jablonski faces between 1 to 5 years behind bars on each of the two felony charges.
 
Despite a tearful plea for leniency, Michael J. Jablonski was sentenced on Wednesday to 10-1/2 years in federal prison for having thousands of photographs and hundreds of videos of child pornography on his computer at home.

He had faced a 14-count indictment charging him with receiving and possessing child pornography, but in an agreement with federal prosecutors he pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography.

U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Friedman more than doubled the minimum prison term, citing the "extremely serious" nature of the pictures, some of which included bondage of very young children.

Jablonski taught social studies and coached girls volleyball at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach until his arrest last April. His girlfriend turned him in to police after finding the pornography on the computer.

There was never an indication that he abused any children, either at the school or in his care at any time.

"There's not one shred of evidence, suspicion or even a hunch that he acted outside this obscene world," Jablonski's attorney, Andrew Sacks, told Friedman.

Sacks had argued unsuccessfully for a sentence at the mandatory minimum level of five years, citing his client's lack of a criminal record, his 14 years of teaching and coaching and, as a mitigating factor, years of sexual abuse as a child and teenager.

Jablonski explained the abuse to the judge, but he began crying and had to pause.

First it was a neighborhood boy when he was 7. Then a year or two later he was attacked and sodomized with a stick. Then a Catholic priest fondled him when he was 14. And at 18, another priest touched him inappropriately.

He could barely finish.

"For 30 years I never told anyone about it," he said.

He added that he was not telling his story to make excuses, but simply to offer a better understanding of his actions.

"I know I let down my loving family and the people in the community," he said. "For that, I'm sorry."
 
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