A man contracted to help run after-school programs at Fairfax County Public Schools during the 2022-2023 school year faces 24 felony counts after police said he filmed children inside two elementary schools.
By Emma Uber
Police arrested Elmore-Adon on Aug. 12 and later searched his phone, Spital said, ultimately finding over 400 images and videos of child sexual abuse material, as well as seven videos Elmore-Adon took of four children between the ages of 6 and 8 inside Churchill Road Elementary School and Fox Mill Elementary School.
“What our detectives discovered inside Elmore-Adon’s phone was nothing short of disturbing and disgusting,” Spital said during the news conference.
Spital said Elmore-Adon filmed the videos surreptitiously, either in bathrooms or by placing his phone underneath the dresses, skirts or shorts of young children. The families of the four victims police say Elmore-Adon filmed in Fairfax schools have been notified and connected with the police department’s victim services unit, Spital said.
Elmore-Adon faces charges of aggravated sexual battery and unlawfully creating an image of a minor for what allegedly occurred at the Safeway, as well as 15 counts of possession of child pornography and seven additional counts of unlawfully filming a minor. He is being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center without bond, police said, and is being represented by the Fairfax County public defender’s office, which declined to comment on his case.
Detectives are still combing through more than a half-terabyte of digital content from Elmore-Adon’s phone, Spital said.
Elmore-Adon filmed the seven videos while working for Overtime Athletics, a vendor of Baroody Camps, the company that Fairfax County Public Schools contracts to run after-school enrichment programs, Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid said during the news conference.
Reid said the school district requires all workers in schools — whether hourly contractors or full-time employees — to undergo a background check. The district’s human resources department reviewed and approved Elmore-Adon’s background check in 2022, Reid said.
“I want to reassure our Fairfax families and our staff that we are doing everything within our power to maintain a healthy and safe learning space for all of our students and staff and will continue to do so,” she said. “It’s our top priority.”
Overtime Athletics franchise owner Will Doyle said Elmore-Adon underwent the child abuse and inappropriate contact training, child protection training, and mandatory reporter training that Overtime Athletics requires all youth sports instructors to take before stepping foot inside a school building.
“We’ve been a trusted name in the community since 2003 and we did everything we possibly could to prevent having somebody like this on our staff, but unfortunately there are just some people that have issues that can’t be caught by a background check and fingerprint and training process and all the things we do to try to get the best people,” Doyle said.
Overtime Athletics employed Elmore-Adon from September 2022 until May 2023; Doyle said Elmore-Adon was only contracted for the school year.
“We’re devastated,” Doyle said. “Our number one priority is the safety of every kid that ever comes into one of our programs, whether that’s an enrichment program or a summer camp, or whatever it may be.”
