Broward PE teacher arrested on child sex abuse material possession charges
A Broward elementary school gym teacher remains behind bars Sunday after he was busted for being in possession of child pornography.
Craig Rogers, 60, sits in Broward Sheriff’s Office’s Paul Rein Detention Facility on $52,500 bond, $7,500 for each of the seven counts of possession of child sexual conduct, commonly called child pornography or child sex abuse material.
Before being booked into Paul Rein on Tuesday, Rogers lived at the Studio 6 in Coral Springs, 5645 N. University Dr. The extended stay hotel sits about a 10-minute drive from Westchester Elementary School, where Rogers has taught physical education for 21 years.
“Our district and school administration are deeply disturbed by the allegations and are cooperating fully with law enforcement in its investigation,” a statement from Broward County Public Schools said. “The employee had been reassigned away from the school and students in April 2025, following his off-campus arrest on a different case.”
Rogers was arrested April 17 on three counts of stalking and two counts of giving a false crime report. He’s still under two restraining orders filed on April 7 by his next door neighbors in the Coral Springs’ condominium community that preceded the hotel as his residence.
A ‘pervert teacher’ on Kik?
“It was determined that numerous photographs located in Rogers’ Kik account showed his office and equipment room in the school,” Coral Springs police said in a release. “A multitude of messages from different chat groups were also provided by Kik, where Rogers called himself a ‘pervert teacher.’”
For the last decade, the Kik communications app has shown up often in arrest reports and guilty pleas involving child pornography charges. A search of Miami Herald stories involving child pornography shows the app being mentioned in 52 of those stories.
Coral Springs police says a tip from the National Center of Missing and Endangered Children alerted a detective assigned to BSO’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit, who then found someone was using a Kik/Media Lab account to send out files of child sex abuse material. This started the investigation by Coral Springs police’s special victims unit and BSO’s ICAC unit that ended at Rogers.
Police are asking anyone who knows anything about this investigation to email Coral Springs police SVU Det. Nicole Hildebrandt at nhildebrandt@coralsprings.gov.
This story was originally published July 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM.
