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Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Former Fire Captain Who Uploaded Child Porn At Morris County Station Gets 3 Year Sentence
A former fire department captain who uploaded child pornography at a Morris County station is heading to prison. Landing resident James T. Hess, 50, was sentenced on Friday, August 11 to three years in New Jersey State Prison for child endangerment and distribution of child sexual abuse materials, Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll announced. Investigators — tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children — say Hess viewed and uploaded the videos on the Internet-based chat app Kik while at the Netcong Volunteer Fire Department, where he was a captain. He al…
Norwalk, CT
Police & Fire
Norwalk Man Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charges
A 26-year-old Fairfield County man has pleaded guilty to possessing images and videos depicting child sex abuse. Jake Scott Flewellyn, of Norwalk, pleaded guilty in Bridgeport federal court on Monday, July 31, said Vanessa Roberts Avery, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, in December 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a report from the smartphone messenger application Kik about a Kik user who was distributing videos of child pornography through its service. Kik deactivated the user’s acc…
Worcester, MA
Police & Fire
Child Porn: Central Mass Man Who Tried To Meet Agent's Child For Sex Sentenced To Prison
A Worcester man who admitted to propositioning an undercover agent's underage daughter for sex will serve 12 years in prison, federal authorities announced on Monday, July 10. Kenneth Gianatasio, 44, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. A judge sentenced him on Friday. Gianatasio is alleged to have started a conversation with an undercover agent on the social messaging app Kik in August 2019. The agent was posing as a parent, and Gianatasio asked if he…
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Police & Fire
South Jersey Man Sentenced For Sharing 700 Child Sex Abuse Videos: Prosecutor
A 22-year-old man from Atlantic County has been sentenced in connection with sharing 700 child sex abuse videos, authorities said. William Edson, of Mays Landing, was sentenced to five years in New Jersey State Prison on Thursday, June 8, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office. He must serve the entire five-year sentence before being released. In February 2022, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was notified of suspicious activities occurring on the KIK social media platform in December. Detectives linked approximate…
Worcester, MA
Police & Fire
Child Porn Conviction: Central Mass Man Who Had 500 Videos, 1,000 Images Gets 10 Years
A 46-year-old Worcester County man who admitted to having hundreds of images and videos of child porn and using social media to solicit nudes from children will spend a decade behind bars, authorities said Michael Irons, 46, of Gardner, pleaded guilty in January to one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. A judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison last week, the prosecutor announced on Tuesday, May 23. Police searched Irons' home in July 2020 and found two cell phones in his bedroom that c…
Yorktown, NY
News
Yorktown Repeat Offender Shares Child Porn To Social Media, Gets Years In Prison
A sex offender from Northern Westchester who was already on probation for another offense will spend years in prison after sharing child pornography on social media. Yorktown resident Dylan Rodriguez, age 31, was sentenced on Tuesday, March 7 to three to six years in state prison for sharing child pornography online, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced. Rodriguez, who was already on probation for another sex offense at the time of his arrest, uploaded a video of an approximately five-year-old female child engaged in sexual conduct to Kik, an onl…
Norwich, CT
Police & Fire
CT Man Shared Child Porn Over Instant Messaging App: Feds
A New London County man was arrested this week after police said he sent someone child porn over an instant messaging app last year. Joel Huntsman, who also goes by the names Jay Huntsman, Joel Feser, and Jay Blackburn, 34, of Preston, is charged with distribution of child pornography following a monthslong investigation, the US Attorney for Connecticut said. The FBI began investigating Huntsman in June 2022 after someone sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone — later identified as the Huntsman — was sharing child pornography throu…
Quincy, MA
Police & Fire
Quincy Man Busted With 500 Child Porn Images Gets 6 Years In Prison: Feds
A 29-year-old Quincy man who was caught with child pornography will spend the next six years behind bars, authorities said. Andre Tilahun pleaded guilty to receiving and possessing child porn in October, and a judge sentenced him on Thursday, Jan. 19, the US Attorney's Office said. Investigators said they found 350 images of child porn on Tilahun's computer during a search of his home in 2021. They also found 230 more photos of the offending material on his phone. Police said Tilahun used the social media platform Kik to trade child porn in six separate chat rooms, authorities s…
Bridgeport, CT
News
Bridgeport 63-Year-Old Posed As Teen, Sent Sexual Messages To Undercover FBI Agent, Feds Say
A man from Fairfield County faces prison time for child exploitation charges. Bridgeport resident Michael Nastu, age 63, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday, Jan. 11 for posing as a young teen to an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and sending them sexually explicit messages, according to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. In March 2021, Nastu would use the Kik social media app to start a conversation with the agent while pretending to be a 14-year-old girl from Connecticut. Between March 31 and June 25, 2021, Nastu sen…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Fire Captain Uploaded Child Porn At Morris County Fire Station: Prosecutor
A fire department captain in Netcong was arrested for distributing child pornography, authorities announced Tuesday, Jan 10. James T. Hess, 49, of Landing, was charged with second- and third-degree child endangerment for distribution and possession of child sexual abuse materials, Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll said in a joint release. Investigators — tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children — say Hess viewed and uploaded the videos on the Internet-based chat app Kik while at the Netcong Volunteer Fire Department, where he is a captain. He also w…
Springfield, MA
Police & Fire
Ludlow Man Busted Sending Child Porn To Undercover Agent: Feds
Police arrested a 41-year-old Ludlow this week after they said he shared several videos of child porn with an undercover officer, authorities said. Robert Avrett was arrested on Monday after police searched his home, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Prosecutors charged him with one count of distributing child pornography. Agents began investigating Avrett after he shared multiple videos of child pornography featuring children as young as 3 years old with an undercover office through the messaging app Kik, the prosecutor said. Avrett confessed to police that he was th…
Lancaster, PA
News
Lititz Sex Offender Who Sent Nudes To Undercover FBI Agent Learns His Fate
Two undercover agents caught a central Pennsylvania man using the social media app Kik to make child pornography, according to the Lancaster County district attorney's office. The sting operation began after the Lancaster County Human Trafficking Task Force received a tip from the FBI that Sean Deemer, 54, of the 500 block of Golden Street, Lititz,'s IP address was linked to child porn and grooming on the app on May 3. Between the dates of May 6 and 12, 2021, the FBI posed as an 11-year-old girl Kik and had a conversation with Deemer. A subpoena served to Kik by the FBI revealed the I…
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