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NY Man, 28, Sent Sexually Explicit Pics To Undercover Agent He Thought Was Teen Girl: DA NY Man, 28, Sent Sexually Explicit Pics To Undercover Agent He Thought Was Teen Girl: DA
NY Man, 28, Sent Sexually Explicit Pics To Undercover Agent He Thought Was Teen Girl: DA A Rockland County man is accused of sending sexually explicit messages and images to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, prosecutors said.  Victor Caligiuri, 28, of Bardonia, was arraigned in Rockland County Court on four counts of first-degree attempted disseminating indecent materials to minors, Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II announced on Thursday, Sept. 11.  According to court documents, between June 1 and Aug. 31, 2025, Caligiuri allegedly sent sexually explicit messages, photos, and videos through the mobile app Kik to an undercover investigator w…

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NY Teacher, Coach Lured Underage Girls On Snapchat, Shared Child Porn, DA Says NY Teacher, Coach Lured Underage Girls On Snapchat, Shared Child Porn, DA Says
NY Teacher, Coach Lured Underage Girls On Snapchat, Shared Child Porn, DA Says Charging documents reveal chilling new details in the case of a former Long Island teacher accused of soliciting nude photos from underage girls. Ryan McCaffery, 37, of Ridge, was indicted for promoting a sexual performance by a child and related charges in Suffolk County Court on Wednesday, June 4. A New York State Police investigation found that McCaffery – a former Riverhead High School teacher and coach – posed as a teenage boy in order to chat with numerous underage girls on Snapchat, according to the Suffolk County DA’s office. He sent images of his exposed genitals and requested nu…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Ex-NY Town Worker 'Dirtydaddy' Shared Child Sex Abuse Images, Cheered On Friend's Child Rape Ex-NY Town Worker 'Dirtydaddy' Shared Child Sex Abuse Images, Cheered On Friend's Child Rape
Ex-NY Town Worker 'Dirtydaddy' Shared Child Sex Abuse Images, Cheered On Friend's Child Rape A former Boy Scout leader and town employee in New York will spend years in federal prison for possessing and sharing child pornography. Long Island resident Damon Rallis, 50, of Southold, was sentenced to seven years behind bars in Central Islip federal court on Wednesday, April 16, after pleading guilty to possessing child sex abuse materials in April 2023. Rallis, a longtime Southold Town building department employee and scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts, was arrested in February 2021 after an FBI search of his Southold home turned up numerous images and videos of child pornography, prosec…

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by Michael Mashburn
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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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by Ben Crnic
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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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Attempted Rape Conviction Of Area Man Caught In An Online Sting Upheld By Courts Attempted Rape Conviction Of Area Man Caught In An Online Sting Upheld By Courts
Attempted Rape Conviction Of Area Man Caught In An Online Sting Upheld By Courts The attempted rape conviction of a Hudson Valley man has been upheld by the courts during an appeal of his 2019 guilty verdict during a jury trial. The Ulster County Appellate Division affirmed the conviction last year of Orange County resident Travis Sammeth, age 36, of Newburgh, who was found guilty of attempted rape in a case connected with a sting operation of online predators, said the Ulster County District Attorney David J. Clegg. His conviction stems from an incident on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, when Sammeth made contact with an undercover police officer working with an FBI task…

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by Kathy Reakes
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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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Warwick Man Sentenced For Luring Minors To Send Sexually Explicit Photos Warwick Man Sentenced For Luring Minors To Send Sexually Explicit Photos
Warwick 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