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Top NYC Education Official Arrested For Trying To Set Up Sex With Underage Boy; Background Check Never Finalized

John Bickley
Top NYC Education Official Arrested For Trying To Set Up Sex With Underage Boy; Background Check Never Finalized
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After a months-long investigation, a top official for the New York City Department of Education — which oversees the largest school district in the country — was arrested at an airport in Wisconsin on Sunday for allegedly attempting to meet with an underage boy for sex.

“Department of Education deputy chief of staff David Hay was arrested at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee on Sunday on a charge of using a computer ‘to facilitate a child sex crime,’ according to cops in Neenah, Wisconsin,” the New York Post reports. According to police sources, Hay intended to meet with a minor for sex.

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