TOMS RIVER, NJ – A Toms River middle school teacher has been arrested and suspended without pay after he sent pictures of himself inside his classroom self-pleasuring to a student on SnapChat.
Kyle Banner, 48, of Brick Township, was charged with Official Misconduct and three counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
On April 23, administrators at Toms River Intermediate North were alerted that Banner, a teacher at both Toms River Intermediate North and Ocean County College, posted pornographic photographs of himself to his public Twitter profile.
On April 24, Banner was suspended from his teaching position without pay.
A thorough investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crime Unit, Toms River Township Police Department Detective Bureau and the Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit, determined that students had viewed the pornographic images by accessing Banner’s public Twitter profile.
Upon further investigation, police learned that the photographs were taken in his classroom at Toms River Intermediate North.
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During the course of the investigation, detectives also discovered that Banner sent inappropriate photographs of himself to a student via Snapchat in October of 2022.
Detectives also recovered numerous images of Banner engaging in sexual conduct with himself in his classroom at Toms River Intermediate North. On Tuesday, Banner surrendered himself to the Toms River Township Police Department. He was processed and transported to the Ocean County Jail, where he is currently lodged pending a detention hearing.