WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—A Yorktown Heights resident who works as a teacher in the Peekskill school district was arrested on Friday (May 30) and charged with promoting and possessing child sexual abuse material, Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace said.
Brian Mishk, 28, is listed on the Peekskill City School District website as a permanent substitute teacher at Peekskill High School. According to his Facebook profile, he graduated from Yorktown High School and earned a bachelor’s degree from SUNY New Paltz, followed by a master’s degree from Grand Canyon University. His LinkedIn profile indicates he studied history as an undergraduate and received his master’s degree in second education and teaching in 2022.
Mishk was charged with promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, a class D felony, and possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child, a class E felony.
He was arraigned by Judge Livia Rodriguez in the Town of Cortlandt Court and was held on bail, the DA said.
“This is yet another sad example of a person entrusted with safeguarding our children violating that trust in the worst way,” Cacace said in a press release on Friday. “In this case, Mr. Mishk was allegedly in possession of, and promoting, child sexual abuse material. What makes this even more unnerving is that as a school teacher, he was in constant contact with children.”
According to the release, this case is the third of its kind under Cacace “to hold individuals in a position of public trust accountable for their alleged conduct towards children.”
Reporting from the Peekskill Herald said that the district is “fully cooperating with the DA’s investigation,” adding that “there is no indication that any PCSD students were involved.”
Mishk is due to appear in the Yorktown Justice Court on Thursday, June 5.
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