KELOWNA, B.C. — The U.S. cross-country ski coach accused of planting a video camera in the hotel room of his female students in Vernon, B.C., has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court.
Jason Paur, 44, pleaded guilty Monday morning to transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Paur was a substitute teacher at The Bush School, a private kindergarten-to-Grade 12 school in Seattle, WA., and was also a coach of its boys and girls cross-country ski team.
He was arrested Dec. 10, 2013, at Silver Star Mountain Resort after a video camera was found in the room of female students during a school trip to the ski resort.
He faced charges of secretly viewing or recording nudity or sexual activity, possessing and accessing child pornography, and breaking and entering.
Paur pleaded guilty in Vernon provincial court in January to one count of possession of child pornography and two counts of secretly observing/recording nudity.
The American indictment alleges Paur previously recorded students during ski trips to Vernon in 2011 and 2012.
In September 2014, he was indicted in the U.S. on two counts of production and transportation of child pornography, and one count each of production of child pornography with intent to transport, possession of child pornography, and transportation of minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Following his recent guilty plea to a single count of transportation with intent to engage in criminal activity, the remainder of the charges are to be dismissed, said Seattle Judge John Coughenour's docket clerk Thursday afternoon.
Paur's sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 2, 2016, in Seattle.
