SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - A former Lansing school teacher faces child pornography charges after police said she recorded videos of herself sexually abusing a young child.

Audra Mabel, 34, was charged in a complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida after investigators found pornographic videos she sent to an ex-boyfriend, court records show.

Mabel is charged with producing and distributing child pornography. Her ex-boyfriend, Justin Ritchie, 36, is accused of sexual assault of a child under 12, the records show.

Richie was arrested in Sanford, Florida, earlier this month after police received a complaint that he had sexually assaulted a young child, according to a federal complaint.

Investigators seized his digital devices and found pornographic material produced by both him and Mabel, according to the complaint.

They found numerous sexually explicit videos involving a young child that were made by Mabel in 2017, while she was living in Michigan, officials said. Court records indicate the child was not one of her students.

In a video recorded in a classroom in Lansing, Mabel exposed herself to the camera, then turned the camera to capture what appeared to be a group of first-graders, the complaint said.

Lansing School District spokesman Robert Kolt said Mabel worked as a temporary replacement teacher in a first-grade classroom at Lyons School from November 2016 through June 2017. She left the district when that school year ended, he said.

Her personnel file indicates she cleared background checks and received positive recommendations at the time she was hired, Kolt said.

Mabel was working as a kindergarten teacher in Seminole County, according to the Orlando Sentinel. It was unclear is she is represented by an attorney.

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