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Suspended Pittsburgh teacher skips hearing

A suspended Pittsburgh Public Schools teacher arrested earlier this year on dozens of child-pornography charges was picked up by sheriff's deputies Friday night after failing to show up for a court hearing Downtown.

Edward Lee Springer, 58, of Moon, was placed in the Allegheny County Jail without bond. He had been arrested Jan. 25, after state police investigating peer-to-peer file sharing and trafficking in child pornography accessed a video file from Springer's computer allegedly depicting the sexual abuse of children.