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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A national expansive assemblage returned a three-count indictment connected Thursday against erstwhile Bullard High School Teacher, 37-year-old Ray Anthony Waller, of Fresno.
Waller was taken into custody connected Feb. 20, aft an probe by the Fresno Police Department’s Sexual Assault Unit and the Central California ICAC Task Force.
Waller was booked into Fresno County Jail and accused of intersexual battle charges involving a pupil astatine Bullard High.
According to tribunal documents, betwixt mid-November 2024 and mid-February 2025, Waller communicated with a insignificant utilizing text, voice, and iMessages.
He is besides accused of encouraging the unfortunate to make and nonstop sexually explicit images, sending obscene images of himself and convincing the insignificant to reciprocate, according to officials.
The Fresno Unified School District stated that Waller was instantly placed connected permission erstwhile they became alert of the investigation.
Officials accidental Waller is present facing a three-count indictment including charges of:
- sexual exploitation of a child
- receipt of kid intersexual maltreatment images
- transmitting obscene worldly to a minor
If convicted of this offense, Waller faces a situation word of betwixt 15 and 30 years and a good of up to $250,000 for intersexual exploitation of a kid alone.
Officials accidental that astatine this point, the charges are lone allegations and Waller is presumed guiltless until and unless proven blameworthy beyond a tenable doubt.
Waller is presently detained pending trial. A detention proceeding to find his national custody presumption has been scheduled for June 30, 2025. Waller has besides been charged successful Fresno County Superior Court with crimes relating to this conduct.
