A disgraced teacher who used hidden cameras to record up young girl’s skirts in school and in dressing rooms has now been federally accused of sexually exploiting minors.

Former chemistry teacher Justin Robert Foley, 47, in Ohio, USA was arrested following charges for illegal use of a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material or performance.

The ex-chemistry teacher at the Columbus Alternative High School where he had worked since 2013, was then detained at Delaware County Jail on Tuesday, 20th September.

Delaware Police Department officers executed a search warrant in his home the same day.

The investigation against him came after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children issued a complaint about images of child pornography uploaded via Google email accounts.

They had forwarded the complaint to the Delaware Police Department in August 2022.

Now several months into the investigation, authorities have reportedly found thousands of child porn images and videos on Foley’s Google email accounts.

The 47-year-old man’s accounts, “NastyBoyReginald” and “jfoleyscience”, reportedly contained “numerous images of apparent child pornography.”

Some of the videos on the first account, according to the police “appeared to have been taken in a school setting” and attempted to “film up the skirts or shorts of teenage, pubescent females.”

When questioned by authorities, Foley allegedly admitted that he used the Gmail accounts while the investigation was under way.

The complaint stated: “[Foley] reported he thought both accounts had been shut down by Google, Inc. because of an inappropriate photo set of young-looking models he received from a file-sharing link online.

“Foley also admitted to creating voyeuristic recordings of females, including attempts to record up the skirts of females in public settings and dressing rooms at local stores.”

The offender also admitted to “creating similar voyeuristic videos in the classroom and hallways of the school he taught at which depicted females students who attended the school.”

Investigators then searched his iPhone, laptops, and an external hard drive which “yielded tens of thousands of videos and images, specifically screenshots of videos which depicted Foley utilizing his cell phone to capture videos of female genitalia under the victims’ skirts and shorts.”

They reportedly found evidence of the teacher “surreptitiously recording females in several dressing rooms where the females depicted were changing clothes.

“In addition, thousands of videos and screenshots on Foley’s iPhone were recovered where Foley utilized his cell phone to record up unsuspecting females’ skirts and shorts in the classroom and hallways.”

Some of the images were reportedly zoomed in and edited because the defendant wanted to “get a better video of the genital area of the females.”

Two female students, aged 15, were identified as victims in the complaint.

The video footage of the first student, who had left the high school after her sophomore year, reportedly dates back to 2018.

The statement said: “In one of the videos, Jane Doe One is depicted bending over just as Foley is walking behind her and recording.

“The resulting video depicts the exposed, nude genitalia of Jane Doe One outside of her underwear.”

He attempted to film the second student, who still attends the Columbus Alternative High School, the same way, according to the police.

The complaint stated: “At the time, Jane Doe Two is depicted wearing shorts which reveal a portion of her buttocks.

“The videos depict Foley walking behind Jane Doe Two several times, recording her from different angles including low close up and from behind.

“Foley then attempted to record up Jane Doe Two’s shorts in the vaginal area.”

Additionally, Foley allegedly possessed thousands of images showing sexual abuse of children “which depicted a series of images of prepubescent females in various stages of nudity or fully nude engaged in lascivious display of their genitalia or anus”.

The defendant agreed to be detained pending trial after he appeared in court on Wednesday, 9th November.

He faces decades in prison if convicted.