A former teacher in Hawaii who once leveled pedophile accusations against conservatives has just been sentenced on child pornography charges.
Alden Bunag worked as a teacher in Oahu before his 2022 arrest and after the 35-year-old pleaded guilty to the child pornography offense, he was sentenced Tuesday to 17.5 years in prison.
“Senior United States District Judge Susan O. Mollway sentenced Alden Bunag, 35, of Honolulu, yesterday to 210 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for production of child pornography,” according to a press release from the Department of Justice. “Bunag will also be required to register as a sex offender and pay identified victims $30,000 in restitution.”
According to the DOJ:
According to information produced to the court, from around 2017 through 2018, when Bunag was working as a middle school teacher on Oahu, he engaged in repeated sexual activity with a 13-year-old student. Bunag recorded the sexual activity on multiple occasions, which took place in his middle school classroom. He later sent the video(s) to others, including a teacher in Pennsylvania, who was also prosecuted for child exploitation offenses. In addition to the videos Bunag recorded of his former student, he also possessed thousands of images of child pornography, to which he had access to from his phone on the date of his arrest. The videos included young male children being sexually assaulted while bound and in pain. Bunag distributed several of these videos to the Pennsylvania teacher and others.
But according to reports at the time of his arrest, the self-identifying “socialist high school teacher” had accused conservatives on social media of “defending fascists” and “projecting” in messages on what was then Twitter about “groomers” and sex education.
Alden Bunag: “Trying to tear down gender roles and subtly instill socialist values into my high schoolers and elementary kids”
“People like you are the ones who allow actual groomers to thrive. Not being able to discuss sex education with children prevents them from having the… pic.twitter.com/2xLojtn4hd
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 18, 2024
“You’re f***ing acting like we want to show kids porn or something, but something I’ve learned through the years is that whenever right-wingers accuse others of something, it’s DEFINITELY because they’re projecting,” he wrote in one tweet from a now-suspended account.
BREAKING: Former Hawaii teacher, Alden Bunag, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for making child porn.
Bunag was very upset with “right-wingers” on X popularizing the term “groomers.”
Prosecutors said he taped repeated sexual activity with a 13-year-old student in a… pic.twitter.com/YHsjvOwYBm
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 18, 2024
“Bunag’s sentence reflects the horrendous nature of the crimes he committed, including against a child for whom the classroom became a place of torture rather than learning and nurturing,” U.S. Attorney Clare E. Connors said in a statement. “Child abusers cause incredible harm to the most vulnerable members of our community, and we will continue to hold them accountable under the law.”
“This sentence shows that the FBI will target those individuals who prey on our most vulnerable members of our community and do whatever it takes to protect our keiki,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Steven Merrill said.
“We will hold them accountable for their heinous actions especially when they were entrusted by students and parents alike to serve as role models and not a sexual predator going after young boys,” he added.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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