Salvo was arrested by undercover agents from Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett's office, assisted by Mt. Lebanon Police. He is accused of sending an undercover officer, who identified herself in an online teen chat room as a 14-year-old girl, webcam images exposing himself and performing sex acts.

According to the arresting agent, Salvo wrote he was watching porn online.The agent wrote she was 14, but Salvo, who allegedly proceeded to engage in perverse dialogue with the officer/decoy and send her nude webcam images of himself. Computers from his home were seized by police and will be sent to the forensics unit for examination.

In another teen Web site, Salvo allegedly posted a message which asked, "Are there any hot girls here for an older, sexy man," and expressing a desire to send nude webcam videos to any girl who responded.

Since he did not register on either Web site, agents later used those images to identify Salvo. MSN and Comcast cooperated with police and were able to provide the computer IP address from which the pornographic images were sent. At least one of those images recorded the face of the accused, according to agents.

Salvo is also a Mt. Lebanon resident.

He was arrested Aug. 21 and remanded to Allegheny County jail on $25,000 bail.

According to an online education profile, Salvo has been a high school chemistry teacher since 1999. He also received his master's degree in education in 1999. He also serves as varsity tennis coach.

As far as his position as a teacher, he'll be suspended with pay pending adjudication of the case against him. There's a possibility he could lose his job if convicted. School officials are reviewing records to see if there were ever any complaints filed against Salvo in the past.

In 2006, Salvo was part of the larger grant team which was successful in obtaining a Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) Classrooms for the Future Grant. Mt. Lebanon High School was among the recipients, and was awarded a $407,573. The initiative provides high school teachers and students with enhanced technology, laptop computers and other state-of-the art computer technology resources for English, math, science and social studies classrooms.

Due largely to Savlo's effort, Mt. Lebanon received a grant in the 2005-2006 school year, and a follow-up grant in the 2006-2007 school year from the Toshiba America Foundation to study the water quality at a local lake.

Corbett created the Attorney General's Child Sexual Exploitation Task Force, specifically designed to arrest child pornographers as well as investigate and capture child predators before they strike by using proactive, undercover operations.

In January 2005, Corbett created a dedicated Child Predator Unit, using a group of specially trained agents and prosecutors across Pennsylvania to identify and capture online predators before them can harm children.

Corbett provided the following statistics on the problem:

n The Internet Filter Review, an online publication that is dedicated to protecting children from pornography on the Internet, has estimated that there are 100,000 web sites offering illegal child pornography. They also report that the average age of exposure to Internet pornography is 11-years-old.

n The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reports that one in five girls and one in 10 boys are sexually exploited before they reach adulthood.

n One in five children, ages 10 to 17, received unwanted sexual solicitations online, according to the Youth Internet Safety Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice.

"With a larger Child Predator Unit we are increasing the pursuit of those in our state, or those who would come into Pennsylvania, who seek to sexually exploit or otherwise prey upon and steal the innocence of our children, effectively preventing children from becoming victims of crime," Corbett said.

Anyone who has information about child predators should contact the Attorney General's Child Predator Unit at 1-800-385-1044.