By Denny Walsh
dwalsh@sacbee.com
The feds don't want Christopher Tomsett out of jail.
First Assistant U. S. Attorney Carolyn Delaney agreed last week to the release of the Woodland middle school teacher charged with dealing Internet child pornography. But before he was sprung on $75,000 unsecured bail backed by the signatures of his parents and brother, the FBI agent who investigated Tomsett learned he had been soliciting personal contact with "skinny, smooth-bodied" boys.
Delaney immediately filed a motion to keep Tomsett (photo left), 43, locked up pending trial. The motion is to be heard today by U. S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd.
He was to be freed on electronically-monitored house arrest in an apartment in the Salt Lake City area, where he was to live in the custody of his father.
Attached to the motion are copies of a Craigslist ad allegedly placed by Tomsett and what are described in the motion as samples of e-mail traffic the ad generated. Parts of the e-mails are raw and graphic.
The ad, posted just after 8 p.m. on March 26, reads:
"Hey there, I'm into younger boys - looking to take it slow at first. Tell me more about you and what you want to know about me. Have my own house, so we have a place to go and chill."
At 3:11 a.m. the next day came this reply:
"hey what's up? First you need to know that I'm 16, so feel free to reject me now."
Tomsett messaged back that 16 was not a problem, "but you have to be mature enough to know what you want, and obviously be able to keep this very discrete."
The 16-year-old says he wants to learn oral sex and Tomsett says he is willing to teach him.
The teenager asks where Tomsett lives. He tells him Sacramento, but says he is willing to get a hotel room in the Bay Area "if you don't want to travel too far."
After nearly three hours of back and forth, Tomsett asks, "any chance you could send a face pic? just wondering what you look like. Nice body pics - love skinny smooth boys."
Call The Bee's Denny Walsh, (916) 321-1189.
Previous coverage:
Woodland teacher held in child porn case makes second court appearance - May 15, 2010
Woodland teacher accused of using Web for child porn - May 14, 2010
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