Police: Child porn convict arrested for running business that filmed youth sporting events

ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — Authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they say violated his parole when he videotaped as many as 46 youth sporting events in the Crescent, Sewickley and Pittsburgh areas.

Brandon Carter, who was convicted on child pornography charges in 2012, was operating a business called Digix Films and would provide an alias, Kalon Carter, when contracting work, according to police paperwork.

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Carter's attorney, Mike DeRiso, said he does not believe Carter broke probation.

"I don't think that broke his probation -- I don't think he had contact with anybody," said DeRiso.

According to court paperwork, Carter had a several jobs through his business including: taking high school photos, videotaping youth football teams, anti-bullying campaigns and had a casting call for male and female actors ages 14 to 40.

"(Carter) has been attending several midget football games videotaping young boys and girls… some as young as seven or eight…," arrest papers said.

The president of the Youth Football League released a statement on Facebook, saying, "I am shocked. He was very nice. They were very good at what they did."

Channel 11 has learned that Carter used his alias to get into Grandview Upper Elementary School in Tarentum. He was working as a videographer for a performer at an anti-bullying assembly.

"Knowing that a stranger can come into our schools as a sex offender, give a false name and not show proper identification as a complete stranger is appalling," Rebecca Middleby, a parent, said.

A visitor security system used by schools to screen for offenders was not effective because Carter used a fake name.

The CEO of Raptor Technologies said the system is set up to scan photo IDs and run them against the sex offender registry. It's up to school districts to have someone give their name and date of birth if they don't have an ID.

A letter to parents from the Highlands School District said, in part:

"We want to assure you that normal procedures utilizing the Raptor system were followed. Unfortunately, the videographer used an alias that was entered into the system and did not result in any hits on the name. Additionally, the videographer and the performer were escorted by school personnel the entire time they were in the building. District solicitor Mr. Ira Weiss issued a cease and desist order requiring photos and videos to be returned to the district and not used in any publicizing for the artist. In order to ensure an incident such as this does not reoccur, Highlands School District will require a valid driver's license to be entered into the Raptor System for all parents, volunteers and visitors entering our buildings."

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