The Texas man who has a Las Vegas bond and was a former visiting lecturer at UNLV was arrested in San Antonio on Tuesday on charges related to possession of child pornography, according to the Department of Justice.
Zaid Mashhour Haddad was accused of one count of possession of child pornography and intentionally accessed with the intent to view material containing images of child pornography, according to a news release from the US Lawyer’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
According to federal criminal charges, FBI agents executed a search warrant in July 2021 at Haddad’s apartment in San Antonio.
At the time, Haddad said, “I was watching child sexual abuse material flow from a computer into a wall-mounted television in my apartment bedroom,” according to the complaint.
The video shows a boy who appears to be seven or eight others is being abused by a “nude man,” according to the complaints. The link, which was used as the source for the child pornography video, stated in the complaint that it contained “181 different videos.”
Haddad is an associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, according to the arrest affidavit. A check of the online school faculty page on Thursday showed Zaid Haddad, listed as an associate professor of instruction, interdisciplinary learning and education.
In an email, a UTSA spokesman said Haddad was placed on paid administrative leave until he held the outcome of the incident.
Zaid Haddad’s LinkedIn web page, which showed the same headshot photos as the UTSA Faculty Page, shows that Haddad was a “visited instructor in teacher education” at UNLV from 2012 to 2022. It also shows that he received his PhD from UNLV.
The online UNLV digital scholarship record shows a paper from Zaid Mashhour Haddad entitled “Multiple case studies of gay teacher identity development: Negotiation and establishment of identity to disrupt heteronormativity.”
A spokesman for UNLV said in an email Friday that Haddad was employed by the school as a visiting lecturer between 2010 and 2014.
According to the Department of Justice, Haddad faces up to 20 years of prison, a lifetime surveillance release, a fine of up to $250,000 and requirements to register as a sex offender.
Haddad is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing on May 7th before San Antonio Judge Richard Farrar.
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