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Two men face federal child pornography charges

A middle-school teacher and an unemployed woodworker pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court in Central Islip in separate child pornography cases. Richard Hartig, 42, a veteran science teacher at Island Trees Memorial Middle School, Levittown, pleaded not guilty to downloading videos of child pornography. Hartig, who lives in Lindenhurst and had taught at the school for 15 years, told FBI agents...

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