BINGHAMTON, New York -- A former gym teacher has admitted pretending to be a teenage boy and persuading three girls to record sexual acts so he could watch them.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says 41-year-old Justin Hobbie pleaded guilty Thursday in Binghamton's federal courthouse to three counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
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He's being held in Cayuga County Jail until sentencing Dec. 19.
Prosecutors say Hobbie was a gym teacher at Cooperstown Junior-Senior High School when he committed his crimes between 2015 and 2018.
Court records don't say whether the girls were students there.
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Prosecutors say Hobbie persuaded young teenage girls to make videos of sexual acts and send them to him via Kik and Snapchat social media apps.
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