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Police: Juvenile Justice Worker Sent Nude Pics To Teen

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Published: September 24, 2008

GULFPORT - An employee with the Department of Juvenile Justice was arrested today on charges he text-messaged obscene and nude pictures of himself to a 14-year-old girl who had been in a juvenile detention center, according to Gulfport police.

Parris Woods, 27, was expected to be booked into the Pinellas County Jail, said Lt. Robert Vincent of the Gulfport Police Department. The exact charges were not available.

A campus police officer at Boca Ciega High School began an investigation after the 14-year-old, who attends the school, told him about the text messages, Vincent said. The text messages were from a man who claimed to be an employee at the juvenile detention center where the girl had been held in an unrelated matter, Vincent said.

The sender asked to meet the 14-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity, Vincent said. A man, identified by authorities as Woods, a corporal with the Department of Juvenile Justice, was taken into custody today after he showed up for the rendezvous, Vincent said.

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