Former Las Vegas-area high school teacher, college professor, arrested on federal child porn charges in Texas

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A former CCSD social studies teacher, professor at Nevada State College, and visiting lecturer at UNLV was arrested in Texas Tuesday on child pornography-related charges, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.

Zaid Mashour Haddad, whose professional resume includes a semester as a visiting lecturer in teacher education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2013 and a semester as an adjunct faculty member at Nevada State College in 2011, teaches at the University of Texas at San Antonio, according to a bio page on the college’s website.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, in a news release, says Haddad streamed child sexual abuse material, colloquially known as child pornography, on a TV mounted on the bedroom wall of his apartment. As the FBI executed a search warrant on Haddad’s apartment, the release says a CSAM video was displayed on that TV set. The U.S. Attorney’s office says FBI agents reviewed the link Haddad was using to stream the video, which he received through the cloud-based messaging app Telegram — known for its encryption features — and that it contained 181 different videos. Haddad also used links that led to virtual Zoom meetings where CSAM would be live-streamed using a separate file-sharing application, the release says.

The CBS affiliate in San Antonio asked USTA for information this week, and a university spokesman told the station, KENS 5, that a faculty member was arrested “in a criminal investigation unrelated to UTSA.”

Haddad’s USTA bio and professional resume also reference five years, from 2004 to 2009, as a social studies teacher at Canyon Springs High School in the Clark County School District. It says he teaches courses at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral level.

Haddad is charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of knowingly accessing with intent to view any material that contained an image of child pornography, according to the release, If convicted, Haddad faces up to 20 years in prison, lifetime supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000, the release says.

Requests for comment from the Clark County School District, UNLV, and Nevada State College were not returned immediately.

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