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Repeat Offender Shares Child Porn To Social Media, Gets Years In Prison In Northern Westchester Repeat Offender Shares Child Porn To Social Media, Gets Years In Prison In Northern Westchester
Repeat Offender Shares Child Porn To Social Media, Gets Years In Prison In Northern Westchester 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…

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Area Man Admits To Child Exploitation Offense Area Man Admits To Child Exploitation Offense
Area Man Admits To Child Exploitation Offense A Fairfield County man has pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child after meeting a 14-year-old online and driving to another state to pick her up and bring her to his home.  Wayne Marcell, age 36, of Danbury, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, April 5 in Bridgeport, said Leonard C Boyle, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, in April 2021, a 14-year-old girl in Georgia met Robert Fyke, of Lubbock, Texas, on an online video/chat platform. Fyke and the minor victim then used Kik and other social media p…

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CNN Producer Charged With Enticing Minors Into Sexual Activity, Feds Say CNN Producer Charged With Enticing Minors Into Sexual Activity, Feds Say
CNN Producer Charged With Enticing Minors Into Sexual Activity, Feds Say A Connecticut man who was a producer at CNN headquarters in New York City has been charged with sexually abusing underage girls. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced on Friday, Dec. 10 that Fairfield County resident John Griffin, 44, of Stamford, was arrested by the FBI after a federal grand jury in Vermont charged Griffin with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.  According to the indictment: From April to July of 2020, Griffin utilized the messaging applic…

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by Joe Lombardi
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West Point Staff Sergeant From Area Charged For Distributing Child Porn West Point Staff Sergeant From Area Charged For Distributing Child Porn
West Point Staff Sergeant From Area Charged For Distributing Child Porn A staff sergeant at West Point who lives in the area has been charged for distributing child pornography, federal prosecutors announced. Orange County resident Patrick Edwin Gorychka, 37, of New Windsor, was arrested Wednesday, Dec. 4, and charged with one count of distribution and receipt of child pornography,  said Geoffrey Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The charge carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years. According to the complaint filed in White Plains federal court Thursday, Dec…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Area Man Sentenced For Luring Minors To Send Sexually Explicit Photos Area Man Sentenced For Luring Minors To Send Sexually Explicit Photos
Area Man Sentenced For Luring Minors To Send Sexually Explicit Photos A 23-year-old registered sex offender in the Hudson Valley has been sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars after pleading guilty to posing as a child on social media to entice minors for sex. Geoffrey Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District, announced this week that Robert Garneau of Warwick in Orange County has been sentenced to 16 years in state prison after pleading guilty to three counts of enticement of a minor last May. According to court documents, from September 2014 through December 2014, Garneau communicated online via Instagram and Kik with a 12-year-old…

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by Zak Failla