A former High Plains Community School employee convicted in a child porn case appeared in court for sentencing on Monday.
Merrick County District Court records show 29-year-old Jonathon Scheerer-Hamm was sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison for Possession of Child Pornography and 2nd-Degree Sexual Abuse by a School Employee.
Court documents show he pled no contest to the charges and in exchange, all other counts were dropped.
According to authorities, Scheerer-Hamm was arrested in May last year following an investigation into an alleged relationship between him and an underaged student.
An arrest affidavit says it was determined there were at least 493 separate files containing child porn on his cell phone.
Scheerer-Hamm was formally a paraeducator at High Plains Community School.
He also served as the head coach for the high school boy’s basketball team prior to his arrest.
