Disgraced Tennessee middle school teacher who filmed students in locker room whines in court after hearing testimony from victim’s parents

A disgraced Tennessee middle school teacher moaned after being sentenced to four years in prison for planting a camera in a girl’s locker room and filming up a student’s skirt.

Christopher Schroll, 33, a former eighth-grade science teacher and football coach at Cleveland Middle School, pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated illegal photography of a minor in a Bradley County courtroom Monday, according to WTVC.

Schroll was arrested in March 2022 after students complained that they found a camera inside the locker room.

The pervert told Cleveland police detectives he purchased a DivineEagle spy camera on Amazon and placed it in the girls’ locker room after he said he received “complaints” that students were being “bullied and harassed,” News Channel 9 previously reported.

He told investigators that he would take the footage home every day and store it on his personal computer for “viewing.”

School administrators, however, say they never received any complaints of harassment and that Schroll never informed them of any incidents.

His secret recording of students took place over two days, with 30 girls filmed, some of them changing, according to investigators.

Police were forced to comb through about four million images on an SD card linked to the secret recording device, the outlet reported.

Detectives also say they found a deleted video on one of his devices that filmed up a student’s skirt.

Upon his arrest, parents of students at Cleveland Middle School were immediately notified of the teacher’s alleged disturbing conduct.

Before his sentencing Monday, Schroll was forced to listen to several families of the young victims testify about how his disgusting actions affected their lives.

“She had no words to describe what happened at school that day because she didn’t know people could do bad things,” an unnamed parent told the court, emotional. “She asked me, ‘Why, Mom? I trusted her!’”

“I ask that you do justice for my daughter and all the other girls in this case, because they haven’t seen this for these girls yet – and that you understand the impact that this has had on our children and how it has changed their lives in how they deal with their relationships with other teachers, how it affects them at school and how it affects their personal lives,” another mother said.

Sex offender counselor Dr. Michael Adler testified in Schroll’s defense at his trial, arguing that the disgraced educator should receive treatment, not prison time, according to WTVC.

However, the parents argued that since his arrest he has been seen near the girl’s soccer practice and that his presence in the community is disturbing.

Schroll also spoke at Monday’s sentencing hearing, and through tears he apologized to the victims and their families.

“To the parents and to your children, I am deeply sorry. I know you trusted me and I betrayed that trust, and all I can say is I’m sorry,” he said, facing the parents in the courtroom.

Schroll will also be required to register as a sex offender.