A former Fraser band instructor and classroom teacher duped minors -- some former and current students -- into sending photos of their genitals by creating a bogus Facebook page, federal authorities say.
Now, Gregroy Austin, 33, is going to pay for his scheme.
Austin, who pleaded guilty two weeks ago to child pornography charges, faces sentencing in U.S. District Court in Detroit on May 13.
Austin was first arrested for for purchasing Vicodin in the parking lot of Eisenhower Elementary School in Fraser. When police checked his cellphone, they found pornographic images. He was fired from his job after the arrest.
The Oakland Press reported that he had 133 images of children — male and female — engaged in sexual behavior stored on his cellphone, and at least 12 minors were former or curent students ranging in age from 14 to 17.
Mitch Hotts of The Oakland Press wrote that Austin created an online online persona on Facebook of a beautiful young woman named Julie, and contained sensual pictures of “Julie.”
The pretend person convinced minor boys to photograph their genitals and send the pictures to him.
According to an affidavit by FBI agent Rodd C. Reineck, a police detective searched Austin's phone and found "numerous sexually explicit photographs of real children, both male and female, engaged in lascivious exhibition of their gentitals."
