A former science teacher in the Boston Public Schools was sentenced to ten years in prison this week for various counts of child abuse, including coercing at least one underage girl into sharing sexual images of herself in an online conversation.
John Magee Gavin, 35, of Brookline, was arrested last year after investigators discovered he had sexual interactions with females aged 12 to 17 on the messaging platform Discord, during which he frequently urged them to send him explicit photos of themselves, federal authorities stated.
According to the office of US Attorney Leah B. Foley, officials discovered a variety of photographs and videos on Gavin’s cellphone after his arrest in February 2025, portraying the sexual exploitation of teenagers and young children…