DISCOVERY BAY — A middle school teaching aide was caught with bags of girls underwear and a sex doll designed to look like a prepubescent child, according to a report by the cops who searched his home.

The aide, 25-year-old Discovery Bay resident Dominic Vannucci , now faces a federal indictment as well as state child pornography charges. A federal grand jury indicted him last month on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography, meaning Vannucci faces a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years if he’s convicted.

The case against Vannucci started with a relatively common tip about a person accessing child sexual abuse material online. It has since sprawled into even more disturbing allegations that Vannucci took lewd photographs of students and stole childre

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