Reynolds High School teacher convicted of seducing child he met online

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PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — Former Reynolds High School teacher Edward Hernandez-Corchado was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release on Friday, June 7, for attempting to lure and coerce a child.

The 27-year-old man traveled from Portland to Bend in hopes of meeting a 15-year-old child he met online, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon.

Court records show that in November 2022, as part of an ongoing online child exploitation investigation, a Bend police officer began using a Snapchat account to pose as a 15-year-old child .

Over several days, Hernandez-Corchado had sexually explicit conversations with the officer, whom he believed to be the child, eventually hatching a plan to meet him in Bend.

After being intercepted and arrested by police on November 11, 2022, during his trip to meet “the kid” in Bend, he admitted to regularly having sexually explicit conversations with underage girls online, possessing child pornography and having already met two children in Bend. the Salem area for engaging in sexual behavior.

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