{"id":873258,"date":"2026-06-17T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/873258\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:54:23","slug":"drug-fueled-nyc-teacher-who-went-by-online-handle-nysubslut-pleads-guilty-to-horrific-child-porn-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/873258\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug-fueled NYC teacher who went by online handle ‘NYSubSlut’ pleads guilty to horrific child porn charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

A disgraced New York City teacher could spend decades behind bars after he was caught with a thumb drive full of child porn<\/a>, including gruesome images of infants being sexually abused.<\/p>\n

Joseph Taylor McKeel, a former biology teacher at Independence High School in Hell\u2019s Kitchen, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in Brooklyn Federal Court on Tuesday, according to the US Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of New York.<\/p>\n

\"StudentsIndependence High School teacher Joseph Taylor McKeel pleaded guilty on Tuesday to owning a trove of child sexual abuse images. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

McKeel was arrested on his way to work in March, while he was carrying a backpack that contained a thumb drive with over 150 images of child sexual abuse and a pipe used for smoking methamphetamine, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

The perverted educator \u2014 who used the online username \u201cNYSubSlut\u201d \u2014 was discovered by the FBI after undercover operatives with the Scottish police caught him trading child porn over Zoom in September.<\/p>\n

McKeel was in the meeting with an online group called \u201cJust guys and football\u201d \u2014 who were suspected of sharing child porn, the feds said.<\/p>\n

His username\u2019s IP address was traced back to him, leading US federal agents to obtain a search warrant for his home. There, investigators uncovered another device containing child sexual abuse material, prosecutors added. <\/p>\n

\"AMcKeel faces a sentence of 20 years behind bars for child pornography charges. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n

McKeel\u2019s name was scrubbed from the Independence High School website after the bust.<\/p>\n

He was previously released on a $200,000 bond and ordered by Brooklyn Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon to be placed in a drug treatment program.<\/p>\n

\u201cMcKeel possessed graphic images of child sexual abuse, including sexual abuse of infants and toddlers, all while employed in a position of trust as a high school biology teacher,\u201d US Attorney Joseph Nocella said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cProsecuting those who victimize children by feeding the market for child pornography will always be a top priority of our Office and our law enforcement partners,\u201d Nocella added.<\/p>\n

McKeel faces 20 years behind bars at his sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disgraced New York City teacher could spend decades behind bars after he was caught with a thumb…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":873259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,20020,47803,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,63465,150387,22598,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-873258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-child-abuse","tag-hells-kitchen","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-pedophiles","tag-sexual-predators","tag-teachers","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116764848518223041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}