ROBBINSVILLE: Former teacher pleads guilty to sending lewd Webcast

   TRENTON — A former technology teacher at Pond Road Middle School has pleaded guilty to broadcasting himself masturbating via a live Web camera to a 14-year-old Robbinsville girl.
   Daniel P. Corvino, 32, of Ewing, pleaded guilty March 3 before Mercer County Superior Court Judge Darlene J. Pereksta to second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, a charge contained in an August 2008 indictment, according to the Mercer County prosecutor’s office.
   Under the terms of the plea agreement, Mr. Corvino will be sentenced to a four-year suspended sentence and be subject to parole supervision for life.
   In addition, he forfeits his teaching privileges, must submit to a psychological evaluation to determine if he is a repetitive and compulsive sex offender and must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law.
   He also will be restricted from social networking sites and ordered to have no unsupervised contact with children under 16 years of age.
   Mr. Corvino was arrested Feb. 14, 2008, at his Ewing Township home. He originally was charged with one second-degree count of official misconduct, one third-degree count of aggravated criminal sexual contact and three second-degree counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
   Mr. Corvino, who is free on $100,000 bail, faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
   Now his formal sentencing is scheduled for June 29.
   Two students brought the inappropriate communication to the attention of a teacher after they received instruction on the dangers of Facebook and MySpace at Robbinsville High School. Mr. Corvino was quickly fired from his teaching position in the district, and forums were held for residents to voice their concern over the matter.
   Before being hired as a teacher, Mr. Corvino managed New Jersey based hip-hop artist Shawn Livernoche, whose 2001 autobiography, “A Brief History of Rhyme and Bass: Growing Up With Hip-Hop,” details the duo’s party lifestyle and sexual encounters with women and underage girls.
   This was the third case of a Robbinsville teacher being arrested in three years.
   In 2005, Scott Copperman, a then 35-year-old Robbinsville High School teacher and coach, pleaded guilty to third-degree endangerment of a child charges after police determined he had kissed a female student and sent her romantic e-mails.
   A year later, Daniel Finn — Mr. Copperman’s replacement — resigned after he was charged with possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and serving alcoholic beverages to persons under legal age.