B.C. teacher banned for life after child pornography conviction [Video]

A former B.C. elementary school teacher convicted of possessing child pornography has been banned from his profession for life.

Graham Christopher Bowering entered into a consent resolution with B.C.’s Commissioner for Teacher Regulation earlier this month, agreeing to the ban and admitting to a series of facts about the criminal case. The document was posted online Tuesday.

“Bowering failed to act ethically and undermined the credibility of the teaching profession by violating laws that protect children from sexual exploitation,” the agreement says.

The investigation that would lead to Bowering being charged and convicted began in August of 2020 when he was a teacher in North Vancouver. At that time, the RCMP on the Sunshine Coast, where Bowering lived, received a report that “an electronic service provider account user within their jurisdiction had child pornography in their possession,” according to the agreement,

Roughly six months later, on Feb. 28, 2021, police searched Bowering’s home.

“The RCMP seized videos, images, and writing that police determined were …