A Long Island elementary school music teacher, Mark Verity , was arrested after allegedly engaging in sexually explicit communications with a person he believed to be a 13-year-old girl . The arrest followed a sting operation by the vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island, which used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to expose Verity's activities.

Verity, 37, who teaches at Wading River Elementary School, was charged with multiple offenses, including Attempted Dissemination of Indecent Material to a Minor and Attempted Use of a Child in a Sexual Performance, according to a press release from the Suffolk County Police Department. The group Predator Poachers Long Island confronted Verity outside his school after he allegedly sent lewd messages and photos to a decoy account operated

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