Former Owensboro Superintendent Dr. Matthew Constant Indicted

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State law enforcement charged the former school official with child abuse in July as part of an investigation that was ongoing at the time.

A federal grand jury last week indicted former Owensboro, Kentucky, Public Schools Superintendent Matthew D. Constant after an extensive investigation into alleged child exploitation, officials announced Tuesday.

Kentucky State Police arrested Constant, 52, last year on child abuse charges. A KSP official said at the time that the investigation was “still in its early stages” and noted that the probe “has extended into other states.”

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky, the investigation’s findings recently led a grand jury in Bowling Green to indict Constant on nine counts:

  • Online seduction of a minor (2 counts)
  • Receiving child pornography (3 counts)
  • Sexual exploitation of a minor (2 counts)
  • Transferring obscene material to a minor (2 counts)

The file in Constant’s case was not listed in online federal court records Tuesday morning, nor was the indictment.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a telephone call Tuesday.

In July 2023, state officials described the nature of the investigation in general terms. In a press release, they wrote that investigators had been notified of “a relationship between Constant and an unidentified peer.”

His arrest that month came after the OPS Board of Education voted in June to suspend Constant without pay in an effort to terminate his employment.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Constant made his first appearance before a U.S. police judge on Monday.

“The court has ordered that the defendant be held pending trial,” the agency wrote in a press release. “If found guilty, Constant faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum sentence of life in prison.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Leigh Ann Dycus, of the U.S. Attorney’s Paducah Branch Office, is prosecuting the case. The FBI and KSP led the investigation.

You can contact Houston Harwood at [email protected].

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