Sex offender accused of recording 2 students in restroom stall at Riverside High School

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A registered intersexual offender was arrested past week aft helium was accused of utilizing his cellphone to grounds 2 students successful a restroom astatine a Duval County precocious school, authorities said.

Jamal Collins, 25, of Jacksonville, is charged with video voyeurism.

The incidental happened Sept. 9 astatine Riverside High School. According to an affidavit for an apprehension warrant, a antheral pupil and a pistillate pupil went into the boys restroom unneurotic aft schoolhouse hours, and portion they were some exposed successful a bath stall, they saw an iPhone peering nether the stall.

School information cameras past caught Collins moving retired of the restroom and down the hall, according to the affidavit.

Five days later, according to the tribunal document, investigators talked to an teacher for the Riverside High creation team. The papers says she identified her son, Collins, arsenic the fishy and said helium was connected campus, assisting with an after-school event.

News4Jax talked with our transgression and information adept Ken Jefferson, a erstwhile serviceman with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, astir this.

“It’s precise odd, and here’s a crushed wherefore I find it unusual due to the fact that a enactment offender is allowed connected school. How bash you not cognize that? How bash you not surface for a idiosyncratic that’s coming to enactment oregon adjacent assistance out?” Jefferson said.

According to Duval County Public Schools, Collins’ parent was a volunteer. A DCPS spokesperson sent News4Jax the pursuing statement:

“While our reappraisal of the substance continues, we were appalled to larn that a unpaid seemingly brought her son, present known to beryllium a enactment offender, to afterschool activities past month.

“Upon learning of Mr. Collins’ inheritance arsenic a effect of his apprehension for the alleged incident, the unpaid who brought him to field was disassociated from the schoolhouse earlier this week.

“It should beryllium noted that the unpaid was associated with afterschool pupil activities nether the absorption of a teacher, who is simply a unit subordinate of the schoolhouse with work for these afterschool activities. The idiosyncratic who brought her lad to the field assisted the teacher arsenic a unpaid instructor.

“Because Mr. Collins was not officially associated with the programme and was successful attendance arsenic a impermanent of his mother, the volunteer, determination was nary mode for the schoolhouse oregon the teacher successful complaint to cognize of Mr. Collins’ presumption arsenic a enactment offender astatine the clip of the incident.”

Collins was arrested Friday and was booked into the Duval County jail, wherever helium was being held without enslaved arsenic of Thursday, according to jailhouse records.

He is listed arsenic moving with the First Coast Leadership Foundation. News4Jax reached retired to the instauration and has not received a response.

News4Jax has besides not been capable to scope Collins’ parent for comment.

Collins was arrested successful 2018 connected a complaint of intersexual artillery successful Leon County. He pleaded blameworthy successful 2019 and was fixed 5 years of probation arsenic a enactment offender. He did not service situation time.

News4Jax did ask-DCPS if parents were notified of past month’s incidental and was told lone those of the 2 students progressive were notified.

People waiting to prime up students astatine Riverside High connected Thursday were amazed to find retired astir the incidental connected field past month.

“They should person fto radical know,” said a pistillate whose grandchild attends the school. “And, of course, helium should not person been present successful the archetypal place.”

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