his name brandon speach, he spells it speach, he is 30, they would like to get new err mugshot real soon. detective say they have a clear cut case against him for having a whole bunch of nude explicit videos and pictures every under age boys, around 14 years old, he got them from the boys themselves on websites. he was talking to them on. posing as a woman and then asked them to undress and do things for him, and a lot of them complied thinking they were dealing with a girl, probably their age or just a little older. worse for a lot of people in north philadelphia, that brandon speach not only preyed on boys on line, but parent know him real well because he worked in the neighborhood around chadwick street where his last known address was at a philadelphia public school, the duckery school on diamond street, and day care center. they are wondering what he did when he was in those jobs there, and how he even got the jobs in the first place if he's got history of doing stuff like this. >> steve, thank you. >> one man dead after late night shooting in north philadelphia. it happened just af

and the the big story on "action news" tonight is the arrest of brandon speach for alleged crimes targeting children. a mother tells us speach was babysitting her kids when she discovered he was not who he said he was. christie ileto spoke with her exclusively tonight. >> reporter: that's right. that mother was so shaken up, understandably so. she said she's the mother of nine works seven days a week and it was while she was at work that this man's mugshot aired on tv. that's when she said she realized she had left her kids home with an alleged criminal. >> i said, i gotta go. i'm like, i gotta go. >> reporter: the mother who doesn't want her identity shown choked back tears reliving the moment she discovered she had left her kids home with a wanted man. >> so i just was racing home or whatever. i got home, calling the cops telling them that was the guy in my house. he's my babysitter. >> reporter: brandon speach is facing sexual abuse charges among other things for allegedly posing as a woman on social media to solicit nude images of teenage boys. detectives say it happened over the last t

he's my babysitter. >> reporter: brandon speach is facing sexual abuse charges among other things for allegedly posing as a woman on social media to solicit nude images of teenage boys. detectives say it happened over the last three years. >> how did he gain your trust? >> he gained my trust because he was working at the school. >> reporter: philadelphia city schools confirmed he worked at an elementary school but through nonprofit education works. they tell "action news" they're shocked and deeply troubled by the allegations and reassured parents all our employees, even part time, are required and successfully complete a comprehensive federal and state background check. >> i'm his grandmother. >> reporter: you're his grandmother. >> i don't want to talk to you. >> reporter: speach's family did not want to talk to us. but familiar friends called it jarring. >> you never expect somebody that's your neighborhood, that you grew up with. >> he never did anything to my kids. i always question my kids about everything. he never did anything wrong to my kids. >> reporter: if you could say so

brandon speach is accused of posing as a woman on social media. the mother who did not want to reveal her identity relived the moment that she discovered she had left her kids home with a wanted man. >> i called the cops, tell them and there was a guy in my house, he is my babysitter. >> philadelphia city schools say he worked at the elementary through the nonprocht education work. -- nonprofit education work. school said all our employees have federal background checks. >>> jerry sandusky will be back in court trying trying to appeas conviction. sandusky said he wants a new trial. he claims his previous lawyers did not adequately represent him. chad perdelli will be in bellefonte, centre county for the hearing. >>> police say there's nothing they can do with the distracted driver who was texting with her hands and driving with her foot on the schuylkill expressway. "action news" showed you this piece of viral video wednesday night at 11:00 p.m. authorities need to catch the driver in the act in order to ticket them. a couple video her from the pa

so this is the guy, 30 years old, brandon speach, he has arrest history, that's why he has a mugshot history here. they would like to up date that history with a fresh new picture of him, and what they say is for the past four years he's been on a loft social websites, posing as a woman, and talking to little teenage boys, as young as 14, and telling them he would like to see them without their clothes on, or doing things to themselves without their clothe on, and they've complied, sending him all kind of pictures and videos. highly against the law, so that's why the special victims unit as soon as they've discovered this, through electronic investigation, would like to do a plane, simple investigation, with a tip from a viewer, that knows where this guy and what rock he's hiding under right now so they can put him between some walls of thick rock at a state penetentary. >> this was all going on in north philadelphia, and the sad part, alec, mike, who knows what else he did, because believe it or not the philadelphia public school district apparently hired this guy at the duckery sch

brandon speach has been posing on social video as a woman to lure young boys. the mother who discovered the mug shot on tv was babysitting her children. >> he is my babysitter. >> reporter: philadelphia city schools said speach worked at duckery tanner elementary school. they said all our employees are required and complete a comprehensive federal and state background check. >>> the birds kicked off the preseason with the w. new eagles coach doug peterson led the boys to beat tampa bay buccaneers. katherine scott is live for us in south philadelphia. we know this is only the first preseason game, but the win has a lot of fans excited. >> reporter: a win always has fans excited that's right. people had their eye on carson wentz, they wanted to see how he would adapt to the nfl. was he perfect? no, but he showed potential. people are happy about that. for the eagles there were high points and low points and there was a victory. ♪ fly eagles fly >> reporter: fly they did soaring over the tampa bay buccaneers 17-9. it was not pretty, but fans seemed pleased with th

his name, brandon speach, from north wadwick street.o this stuff on line, but he was working closely with kids, at the duckery school on diamond street, north philadelphia, and day care center, and that's why you got a lot of parent up in north philly outraged wondering what did he in those two jobs, how he even got those jobs, in the first place, with the backgrounds checks, that these schools and day care centers are supposed to do. the real problem here, alex and mike, is the creeps that kind of do this stuff, well, they go on line, with other creams, like themselves, and trade these pictures and videos like they're baseball cards. and who knows how many people got these videos of these local kids all the way in like pakistan or something, say, so these videos and pictures are all over the place. and he probably has hundreds maybe even thousands, because the police tell us he's been doing this for the past four years. they hope he stops doing it, hope they can find him. with that picture on television, that somebody knows where he is

because they've he is dollars this guy before, that's why they have this shot of 30 year old brandon speech as a speach, they would like to speak to him, and get an even new err mugshot of him taken real soon, because detectives say they also have clear cut case against him for these nude explicit videos and pictures every under age boys, 14, 15 year old, mostly, he got them from the boys themselves, on social site, for the past four years. so he likely has lots of disturbing images, and guys like this often share them with other creeps like themselves on line, so they are probably spread all around the world. and these guys sent them because they thought they were dealing with some pretty girl. worse, for the north philly area, where he played on these boys, many parent know him real good because he had just worked with their kids at both a philly public school and a day care center. >> the mood in the neighborhood is really low. the kids are shocked, more or less shocked, because he was so well known. he always did take care of a lot of kids working with kids for many years. i guess high school year,