Former San Antonio elementary school counselor sentenced for posting child sexual abuse material
DEL RIO, Texas - A former elementary school guidance counselor in San Antonio has been sentenced to over a decade for distributing child sexual abuse material, or CSAM.
63-year-old Thomas Mckinley Koog Jr was sentenced in federal court in Del Rio on Oct. 4 to 16 years in prison for distribution of child pornography.
According to court documents, in 2020, Koog uploaded a minute-long video to social media of two minors engaged in sexual acts, which triggered a report by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to Homeland Security Investigations agents.
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That report indicated he had also sent three videos containing CSAM to six different people on multiple occasions in 2019.
The investigation revealed that Koog had been employed as a guidance counselor at a Northside ISD elementary school in San Antonio. Koog revealed he had been a counselor with NISD for more than 12 years and spent more than 20 years as a teacher with the district as well, says the US Attorney's Office.