Southwest Missouri junior high school assistant principal facing child porn charges fired Share Updated: 1:23 PM CST Feb 9, 2021 The Associated Press Share Updated: 1:23 PM CST Feb 9, 2021 The Associated Press An assistant principal at a southwest Missouri junior high school who is facing charges related to child pornography has been fired by the local school board. The Nixa school board voted Monday to fire Colby Fronterhouse, 41, of Nixa, the Springfield Leader-News reported. Fronterhouse was charged last month in federal court with sexual exploitation of a child for the purpose of producing child pornography. An affidavit filed in the case said the 13-year-old victim was exchanging sexually explicit text messages with Fronterhouse, who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. The boy was encouraged to send sexually explicit images of himself, according to the affidavit.Investigators found Fronterhouse was using a burner phone to com