AP 05/29 0324 Pornography Charge WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- A high school teacher has pl

AP 05/29 0324 Pornography Charge


   WORCESTER,  Mass.  (AP)  --  A high school teacher has pleaded
guilty to taking nude photographs of girls from behind a  two-way
mirror as they changed clothes in a dressing room.

   Harold  L. Hartman, 40, of Auburn, entered the plea Tuesday to
10 counts of posing or exhibiting a child in a state  of  nudity.
He was scheduled for sentencing today.

   Hartman,  a  math and science teacher on leave from Shrewsbury
High School  to  work  on  a  training  project  for  a  company,
photographed  10 girls, ages 4 to 17, between 1981 and 1986, said
Assistant District Attorney John P. Haran.

   Parents had brought the girls to a studio to model for a  book
on gymnastics  Hartman  said  he was assembling, Haran said.  The
prosecutor said three girls became suspicious after hearing  what
they thought was the clicking of a camera.

   "I thought he was my friend, but he was not really my friend,"
one  of  the  girls testified at a sentencing hearing. "This will
affect me for a long time, not just now."