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She referenced the "rigor" of the school's work with the Beau Biden Foundation, including its Shield of Protection Partner status, as well as digital firewalls and filters. Speers emphasized that Tower Hill School "has done much to ensure that no child in (its) care could become a victim of child predatory behavior," especially following a former headmaster's conviction on 25 child pornography charges in 2015. She also stated that the school's two psychologists have been "proactive" in helping students. The morning after Ushler's arrest, Speers wrote she "briefed" Upper School students. RELATED: Milford school custodian charged after admitting to sending child porn via Twitter Wheeler was sentenced to 50 years in prison. However, she wrote that unlike Yahoo, "the content of that email system was encrypted and though not visible" to the school. Speers gave a summary of the arrest information in Sunday's email, including an acknowledgement of the involvement of Tower Hill's IP address. Yahoo reported the emails to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's CyberTipline, which then contacted the Delaware Child Predator Task Force on April 14, according to arrest documents A search warrant found that he accessed this email while on school property, but Speers wrote she was "assured" by investigators that none of the children in the images were Tower Hill students.ĬHILD SEX ABUSE IN DELAWARE: How a former school board member used his 'position of trust' to access and abuse kids It is unclear why the school waited to notify parents until Wednesday or how long they had the case details prior to sending Sunday's email.Īccording to court records, Ushler used a Yahoo email account to send child sexual abuse material – a term preferred by activists to emphasize the exploitative nature of the explicit images and videos – to himself about 15 times between August 2018 and March 2022. Tower Hill School was unable to get the "full information" on the charges until after their announcement of Ushler's arrest and firing on April 20, Speers wrote.