The parents of a Long Island teacher accused of sexting a young teen intend to use their house as collateral to secure the alleged perv’s release, the suspect’s lawyer said.
Mark Verity appeared in a Suffolk County court Saturday on charges that he sent sexual messages to someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl, and trying to involve the purported victim in a sex act.
The married father of two was allegedly caught in a sting operation run by Predator Poachers Long Island, a vigilante group that seeks to catch would-be abusers.
The group, which live streamed its confrontation with Verity, 37, earlier this week, claimed he copped to reaching out to its 13-year-old “decoy account” and made a slew of horrifying remarks, including trying to teach the “girl” how to masturbate and asking for sexually explicit photos.
They later released 76 pages of the sick chat logs.
The veteran Wading River Elementary music teacher also allegedly admitted to possessing a heaping stash of child porn featuring kids as young as 8, and blamed his sick tendencies on he and his wife’s sex-less marriage, according to video footage.
Verity, clad in a black hoodie, grey pants and white and black tennis shoes, was silent and stone-faced during his roughly five-minute-long arraignment hearing Saturday in Suffolk County Criminal Court in Central Islip, where Judge Mary Kate Mullen set his bail at $75,000 cash, $150,000 bond or $750,000 partially-secured bond.
His defense attorney, Matthew J. Martinez, announced that the alleged creep’s parents – who sat silently in the courtroom during the hearing – would be putting their house up as collateral in order to help their son make bail.
Verity, who has been suspended from his job, was seen leaving the courthouse with his parents in tow Saturday afternoon.
His wife, who is also reportedly a teacher in the same school district, and two toddlers did not appear in court.
Martinez and Verity’s parents did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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