ST. PAUL, Minn. – A substitute teacher pleaded guilty to soliciting lewd pictures of his school kids and then blackmailing into supplying more. It had gone on for years, according to the federal criminal complaint. Mitchell Ottinger, 25, of the southwest Minneapolis suburb of Carver, admitted to two counts of child porn production and attempted production and one count of interstate communication with intent to extort. It was a scheme that prosecutors call “sexploitation.” Ottinger, who also was a school paraprofessional, used fake personas online to obtain the sexually explicit images and videos. More than 10 children he knew from school were victimized, as well as adults, according to the criminal complaint.
Ottinger. Used fake name to “sexploit” his school kids.