Teacher Caught in "Operation Jail Bait" Used Web Cam to Expose Genitals - Joel Cupps

Teachers just seem to be draw to these online sting operations like a moth to a flame, don't they? You'd think after a while some of them would at least SUSPECT that the 13-year-old girl at the other end of the chat was really a 50-year-old, fat, male cop . . . but no. Here's more on the latest one from Tampa Bay's 10:

Pasco County teacher is behind bars charged with two counts of soliciting sex acts from a minor. The statewide sting called "Operation Jail Bait" used undercover detectives posing as teenagers. According to police, 29-year-old Joel Cupps, who taught third, fourth and fifth grades at Trinity Oaks Elementary School, was caught using a web cam to expose his private parts to a person he believed was a minor.
"We're very shocked and saddened. It was quite a difficult surprise to swallow," said Allison Hoskins, Principal at Trinity Oaks Elementary School. The teacher has since resigned. He taught at the school for two years. He was also a teacher at Chasco Elementary from 2005 - 2006, and Dr. Mary Giella Elementary in 2005.
"He made a full admission to the acts and admitting to communicating to what he believed were children over the internet," said Lt. Mike Baute from the Attorney General's Office.
Citrus and Pasco County detectives worked on the sting after they realized they were investigating the same person. "They just surrounded the house, came from the back and front, pulled up in a garbage truck and everything. There were just officers everywhere," said neighbor Isaac Rios, who witnessed police raiding Cupp's New Port Ritchey home on Thursday morning.