DC gay early education head of school arrested for online sex crimes

The 55-year-old head of school had allegedly been using the messaging 
website Discord earlier this month, telling an undercover agent on the 
server to abuse a child.

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James S. Carroll 

WASHINGTON — Parents at an elite Northwest D.C. preschool were met with 
disturbing news Tuesday when they learned that the man who was in charge 
of heralding their small children's preschool education had been 
arrested for child pornography-related charges. 

James S. Carroll was head of school at the National Child Research 
Center in Cleveland Park, where the 55-year-old was in charge of 
children as young as 2 years old and as old as 5 years old. 

Carroll was arrested and charged with attempted coercion and enticement 
of a minor, according to the Department of Justice on Tuesday. 

Carroll had allegedly been using the username "CircumcisedLondonGay#0" 
to talk about graphic sexual acts involving children and request child 
porn, according to an FBI agent's affidavit. 

Agents were tipped off to the 55-year-old by Discord employees when 
Carroll allegedly uploaded child porn onto the website's server from 
that same account in September. 

"Younger the better," Carroll told the agent on Nov. 5, adding that he 
only wanted to see pictures of boys, preferably between 8 and 12 years 
old. 

The 55-year-old head of school had also encouraged the FBI agent to 
sexually abuse a child. 

"Carroll directed the undercover officer to abuse his child," DOJ said. 
Carroll then allegedly went off of the server to the app Telegram to 
request child pornography from the agent's purported 9-year-old son. 

"According to the criminal complaint, between Nov. 5, 2024, and Nov. 14, 
2024, Carroll used the Discord messaging application to communicate with 
an undercover officer as the father of a young child," the Department of 
Justice said on Tuesday. 

Carroll's alleged online sex crimes may have also happened at work as 
the IP address that agents used to track him down was connected to his 
office as well as his house. Carroll's D.C. driver's license was also 
found inside his Discord profile. 

After the school administrator's arrest on Tuesday, the school erased 
Carroll's name and photo from their website. A welcome letter from the 
55-year-old had spelled out the school's mission of being an inclusive 
environment for young children, "a center of excellence in early 
childhood education." 

Nestled inside a three-story red-brick building in Cleveland Park, the 
National Child Research Center is an exclusive and expensive early 
childhood education. Its tuition for its 2 to 5-year-olds rivals that of 
a private college at over $40,000 a year.

"The case is being investigated by the FBI's Child Exploitation and 
Human Trafficking Task Force," the DOJ said on Tuesday. 

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