Former Superintendent cleared of child pornography charges

A former educator in central and northern Iowa was cleared Monday of child pornography charges.A Dallas County judge dismissed charges against 49-year-old Arthur Pixler. He took his home computer in for repairs and was turned in by shop employees after they found in the memory thousands of images of naked women, some of whom appeared to be under 18. Pixler admitted he had been on porn websites but thought the pictures were of women — not girls. The judge believed him and threw out a search warrant from the Perry police as flawed. Pixler was principal of the Perry middle school for nearly ten years but became superintendent of the Sentral school district in Kossuth County last year. He resigned after his arrest.