Stockton Teacher Being Investigated For Role In Porn Sites

STOCKTON (CBS13) -- A special education teacher is on paid administrative leave from the Lincoln Unified School District in Stockton as an investigation continues into whether she used a school district-issued Apple laptop to run several porn websites.

The district is investigating whether Heidi Kaeslin, 35, was developing several porn sites in conjunction with a retired police officer who told The Record newspaper that he was doing it to earn extra money because of the downturn in the economy after he was forced to take early retirement in May.

Richard Fields, 51, told the paper that he met Kaeslin when he was the school resources officer at Lincoln High School, where she has been employed since 2002.

Most of the sites have been stripped of their content, some in just the past few days, but the About Us section of one of the sites read:

"This company was created by a young teacher who was inspired, after her male students spent most of the period staring at her boobs, to create the "I Heart Teachers" shirt. Knowing this idea would probably not land her an early retirement, she thought, "Why the hell not" and moved forward with her idea by finding a partner, a computer whiz, and a t-shirt designer. The rest is history…"

Kaeslin declined to comment when contacted at her home Wednesday by CBS13's Andrea Menniti.

Superintendent Tom Uslan also declined to go on camera but issued the following statement: "The District has no evidence at this time to make a determination regarding the veracity of the allegations that have been lodged by one, adult complainant. I simply cannot speculate until the facts are known."

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