A former counselor at a Riverside County school pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for being in possession of child pornography and producing it via secret recordings in court on Wednesday.

A Denham Springs man pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography. According to United States Attorney Ronald Gathe Jr., Barry Paul Vining, 56, admitted to uploading images of child porn to a file-sharing service on the internet on Nov.

A former Riverside County school counselor has pleaded guilty to creating child porn by hiding a camera near toilets and showers at a school and a bible camp. Matthew Daniel Johnson, a 34-year-old from Bryan,

Matthew Johnson pleaded guilty to recording boys in the bathroom of the school using a pen-shaped camera, officials said.

The former counselor at La Sierra Academy admitted to placing a hidden recording device inside bathrooms to film boys using toilets and showers.

A former counselor at a Christian academy in Riverside pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal criminal charges for having possessed child pornography and producing it by secretly recording students.