NEW KENT, Va. — A former New Kent County teacher and coach will spend five years behind bars for crimes involving a child.
Deputies arrested Matthew Duckworth, 40, was in November 2018. A grand jury indicted Duckworth later that month.
He faced five counts of using communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children. Investigators said the crimes were against a single child.
Duckworth was a teacher and coach at New Kent High School when the crimes took place. Investigators said he used Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook to send pictures to a 16-year-old girl. The student told them that Duckworth sent the pictures to her in August 2018.
Court documents said Duckworth gave her Xanax pills at one point.
Duckworth received a 10-year sentence for the crimes, but a judge suspended five of those years.