Following his arrest, Thomas R. Carraher, of Howell, was suspended in two different Monmouth County school districts, where he was a teacher and a basketball coach.

A 26-year-old teacher and sports coach in Monmouth County has been accused of offering to pay cash for a sex act and sending sexually explicit media of himself to a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago announced Friday.

Thomas R. Carraher, of Howell, was charged with attempted endangering the welfare of a child, attempted promotion of obscene material to a minor, and attempted criminal sexual contact.