RIVERHEAD (WABC) -- There are disturbing allegations against an educator on Long Island who was suspended from the job after he was allegedly caught on camera admitting to sexting a 13-year-old girl.

The video was taken by a group of vigilantes who say they're on a mission to catch child predators.

Mike Villani, who is with a watchdog group called Predator Poachers Long Island, referred to a streamed YouTube video in which they nab a teacher at Wading River School

The video streamed off school property, in which they, along with police, approached the teacher about his alleged suspicious online activity with someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl.

"I know that it was wrong. I know that I messed up. It is 100 percent on me," he was heard saying in the video.

Suffolk County Police

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