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Warning: This story contains disturbing and explicit sexual details.

A former elementary school principal in Waterloo, Ont. has pleaded guilty to charges that include luring and transmitting sexually explicit material to someone believed to be under the age of 16.

Phillip Sallewsky, 57, is expected to be sentenced in a London courtroom in January.

An agreed statement of facts described sexually explicit online conversations between a username and email address that was linked to Sallewsky’s phone, with two separate accounts that identified themselves as a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl.

The “teens” were actually two undercover police officers.

The user, who went by the names “Sam” or “Chuck,” told the “teens” he was a teacher. He also indicated he was 50 years old.

The user also sent a photo of his face to one of the “teens.” Police soon matched it to a driver’s license photo belonging to Phillip Sallewsky of Kitchener, Ont.

When officers did an online search of his name, they found Sallewsky listed …

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