Middle school teacher facing charges of possessing 1,000 images, videos of child porn, including rape of toddler

By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Monday, March 03, 2025

A person who most just lately labored as a math instructor at a public center college in Manhattan has been arrested and charged with two counts of possession of kid pornography after authorities caught him with no less than 1,000 photographs or movies of kid pornography, together with a male toddler and pre-pubescent boys being raped and exploited in different methods by grownup males.

The instructor, recognized as 41-year-old Ross Lanvin, most just lately taught math at MS 256 Lafayette Academy on Manhattan’s Higher East Aspect, sources advised the New York Put up. He was employed by the New York Metropolis Division of Schooling from about 2006 by means of 2013, and once more in 2016, based on a grievance filed in opposition to him by the United States Legal professional for the Southern District of New York.

“As alleged, Ross Lanvin, who had shut contact with college students as a instructor at a public college in Manhattan, possessed a whole bunch of photographs and movies of kid pornography.  Along with our companions on the NYPD and Workplace of the Particular Commissioner of Investigations for the NYC College District, we are going to proceed to work to root out those that possess baby pornography, particularly when these people work in positions that give them entry to kids—among the most susceptible members of our group,” Performing U.S. Legal professional Matthew Podolsky mentioned in an announcement.

“Our investigation into Lanvin is ongoing, and we encourage anybody with data to contact Wendy Olsen-Clancy, the Sufferer Witness Coordinator at the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.”

Lanvin has been in possession of kid pornography from no less than September 2021 by means of December 2024 which he saved hidden in a Google Drive account beneath an alias, based on the grievance in opposition to him.

“The information embody photographs and movies of nude kids, starting from roughly 3- to 4-year-old kids, on the one hand, to pre-pubescent kids, then again. The overwhelming majority of the information look like baby pornography,” Caitlin Steele, a job power officer with the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety, Homeland Safety Investigations wrote.

Lanvin’s cache of kid pornography was first flagged by Google employees who terminated entry to his account on Dec. 20, 2024, after they suspected he was stockpiling baby pornography. Google then alerted the Nationwide Heart for Lacking and Exploited Kids and shared roughly 150 photographs and 90 movies with obvious or unconfirmed baby pornography or in any other case suspected sexually express materials.

“Primarily based on my evaluation of information Google produced pursuant to a judicially approved search warrant (the ‘Google Warrant’), I do know that the overwhelming majority, if not all, of the pictures and movies within the Topic Google Account’s Google Drive are photographs and movies of nude kids, together with baby pornography,” famous Steele, who shared graphic descriptions of what she noticed. “I do know based mostly on my evaluation of the information produced pursuant to the Google Warrant that the Topic Google Account contained no less than roughly 1,000 photographs or movies of kid pornography.”

Regardless of utilizing a “burner” account to stash his baby pornography, Steele mentioned she was in a position to monitor and determine Lanvin by means of cellphone information and cookie knowledge that hyperlinks numerous emails to the instructor, together with his work electronic mail.

“He was employed by the New York Metropolis Division of Schooling (the ‘DOE’) from in or about 2006 by means of in or about 2013 and once more starting in or about 2016. The NCMEC referrals point out that, on or about Might 10, 2024, the Topic Google Account was accessed from an IP handle that Google reported as related to the DOE,” Steele defined.

“The Topic Google Account has been used to seek for lesson plans and different educating assets, in addition to for pornography utilizing search phrases equivalent to ‘younger’ or ‘teen boys.’ For example, on or about September 16, 2021, the day that the kid pornography was uploaded to the Topic Google Account’s Google Drive, the Topic Google Account was used to seek for movies involving ‘homosexual teen boys’ and in addition accessed the web site academyforteachers.org,” the investigator added.

Steele mentioned she participated in a search of Lanvin’s condominium on Feb. 13 and located no less than 4 movies on a pill belonging to Lanvin displaying boys as younger as 6 being sexually abused.

“After waving his Miranda rights and signing a written Miranda consent type, Lanvin voluntarily spoke to regulation enforcement. Throughout this interview, he confirmed that the 8499 Quantity and one of many “rlanvin” emails had been his. Lanvin additionally admitted that the Topic Google Account was his and that he had entry to it as just lately as roughly two months in the past, at which level he was blocked from accessing it,” Steele wrote. “Lastly, Lanvin acknowledged that he had beforehand accessed baby pornography on digital platforms.”