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Day care monitor charged in child porn case

Quick ReadA day care monitor for an after-school program was arrested early Friday on child pornography charges, federal officials said.

Michael Hopkins, a day-care monitor who was employed

Photo credit: Facebook.com | Michael Hopkins, a day-care monitor who was employed at an after-school program at Sunquam Elementary School in Melville, was arrested Friday on child-pornography charges. (Feb. 5, 2010)

A day care monitor for an after-school program at Sunquam Elementary School in Melville was arrested early Friday on child pornography charges, federal officials said.

Michael Hopkins, 23, of Mineola, admitted that he had been viewing and trading in child pornography for eight years, according to an arrest warrant filed by the FBI agent in federal court in Central Islip.

The warrant...

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