Teacher arrested for obscene pictures

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Mobile County physical education coach has been arrested for sending obscene pictures to a student. Mobile Police took Darrell La Void Tyler into custody Tuesday.

Darrell Tyler is the P.E. teacher for the Continuous Learning Center in Mobile. Police say the victim is 13-years-old. Police say her mother found text messages of a sexual nature on her daughters phone, and she believed they came from an adult male, possibly one of her daughter's teachers.

Parents and teachers talked about the arrest.

"As a parent of a 13-year-old boy and as a teacher of 11 and 12-year-olds, I would say that behavior is unacceptable," said Tina Davis.

As a parent and teacher, Davis knows there are boundaries. Nancy Paige is also a teacher and said some communication is okay.

"There may be a written statement to parents saying I'm going to text your child an assignment. If that were the case that would be appropriate but just friend to friend, that's inappropriate," Paige said.

Both educators, who do not work at the Continuous Learning Center, said with technology today, communication is getting easier, which can be good and bad. Both said they continuously check their own kids phones looking for red flags.

Mobile Police said through a two day period in February, Tyler sent obscene pictures to the victim via text.