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St. Cloud teacher denied bond after arrest in online child solicitation investigation, police say

Marcus Chen
Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Saturday, August 1, 2026 at 12:45 AM
St. Cloud teacher denied bond after arrest in online child solicitation investigation, police say — FOX 35 Orlando, Windermere Real Estate news
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A St. Cloud high school math teacher will remain in jail after a judge denied bond following his arrest in an online child solicitation investigation.Hayden Anthis, 34, has been a geometry teacher at Harmony High School for nearly a decade, according to the Osceola County School District.Investigators said Anthis began corresponding in an online forum with a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl and arranged to meet her. Instead, he was met by law enforcement officers and arrested."Our department's Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) detectives usually assist other law enforcement agencies by gathering information and building cases against some of the internet's worst humans, but back in June they started chatting with a local," the St. Cloud Police Department said. "He thought he would be wearing the condoms and eating the Skittles candy he brought along with him, but instead is wearing handcuffs."The Osceola County School District said Anthis has been banned from all district

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