(CNN) A New York City education official is facing child pornography charges after federal officials say he planned to meet with an undercover agent he thought was a 14-year-old boy. Before joining the New York education department, Hay had been a teacher and principal at two high schools in Wisconsin. Hoffer then told Hay he was 14 and Hay replied "Yea I'm good w that," according to the complaint. After exchanging messages on Grindr, Hay and the undercover agent switched to text messaging app TextNow, the complaint states. On December 9, Hay, who lives in New York, texted that he was visiting Wisconsin at the end of the month.

Source: CNN January 04, 2020 07:41 UTC