One of dozens of people charged Thursday with child porn offences in Ontario included a support worker at a Mississauga private school.

Bret Sheppard, 51, of Mississauga, was charged with possessing and accessing child porn, and appeared in a Brampton court Wednesday. He was among 60 people charged in raids across the province, including 13 in the GTA.

Peel Regional police contacted Lynn-Rose Heights Private School on Wednesday to inform the elementary school about Sheppard.

Sheppard was employed as a support worker with the school’s before-school program and also employed directly by parents as a support worker to children in the classroom, the school said in a release.

“He is no longer employed in these capacities, and no longer has access to school property,” the head of the school Marie Attard said in the release.

Police told the school, which offers classes from junior kindergarten to Grade 8, there was no evidence that Sheppard’s criminal offences are connected to former or current students.

Parents and staff have been notified, she said.

She also said the school has no record of any complaints against Sheppard.