ICYMI: The director of an elite D.C. preschool was arrested Tuesday on charges of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor after he repeatedly chatted online with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as the sexually abusive father of a 9-year-old boy, according to court documents.

James Stewart Carroll, 55, was head of a private preschool known as the National Child Research Center in Northwest Washington for the past six years, according to his LinkedIn page. Carroll previously spent two years as head of the Concord Hill School in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and 11 years as a teacher at the Beauvoir School on Washington National Cathedral’s campus in Northwest.

Charging papers filed Monday and unsealed Tuesday tied Carroll to a Discord account that engaged others in online chats “about child sexual exploitation, circumcision of teenage boys, urinating on teenage boys and adults.”

In September, the papers allege, the account uploaded a suspected file of child sexual abuse material involving two naked boys. An employee of Discord, an online chat platform, reported it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which in turn reported it to the FBI, the papers say.

Internet platforms have been alerted to watch for anyone posting child sexual abuse material.

The Discord account was last accessed by a Comcast Cable account in the Washington area which appeared to be tied to Carroll; according to the FBI affidavit, it was registered with Carroll’s phone number and an address of the Beauvoir School. The FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force then obtained Carroll’s phone, email and Discord records. They found other Discord accounts with further explicit conversations about child sexual abuse, according to an affidavit written by FBI Special Agent Paul Fisher.