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Area Tour Company Founder Indicted On Federal Child Porn Trafficking Charges Area Tour Company Founder Indicted On Federal Child Porn Trafficking Charges
Area Tour Company Founder Indicted On Federal Child Porn Trafficking Charges The founder of a nature tour company operating from the Jersey Shore north to Poughkeepsie and southern Connecticut was found with 6,800 photos and 120 videos of child sexual abuse, an indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges. Federal Homeland Security agents arrested Vaughn Tiedeman, 46, of Living Adventure Tours, in February on distributing child pornography charges. A grand jury in Newark added receiving and possession counts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Thursday. Between July 2018 and January 2019, Tiedeman, of West Milford, “distributed at least 50 videos a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud, Authorities Say Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud, Authorities Say
Cook At Pearl River Tavern Had 200 Child Porn Images On Phone, In Cloud, Authorities Say A cook at a popular Pearl River tavern was charged with having more than 200 child porn videos and images on his phone – including nine of child sexual abuse. Joseph Kosa, 28, who works at Mickey’s Tavern, was convicted nine years ago of possession of child pornography and served three years probation as a result, criminal records show. He was arrested again during a raid at his Hawthorne, NJ home, which followed a four-month investigation that identified several illegal video files stored on a cloud, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Thursday. “During a preliminary forensic e…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NY, CT Residents Among Hundreds Charged In Takedown Of Largest Darknet Child Porn Website NY, CT Residents Among Hundreds Charged In Takedown Of Largest Darknet Child Porn Website
NY, CT Residents Among Hundreds Charged In Takedown Of Largest Darknet Child Porn Website Men from Connecticut and New York are among those charged in the takedown of the largest Darknet child pornography website. Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national, was indicted this week for his operation of Welcome To Video, the largest child exploitation market by volume of content, officials said. Son has also been charged and convicted in South Korea and is currently in custody serving his sentence in South Korea.   An additional 337 site users residing in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jers…

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by Zak Failla
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NYPD Officer From Westchester Busted With Child Porn, DA Announces NYPD Officer From Westchester Busted With Child Porn, DA Announces
Nypd Officer From Westchester Busted With Child Porn, DA Announces An NYPD patrol officer from Westchester was taken into police custody after being busted with dozens of images of nude children, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr., announced. John Telesca, 37, of Port Chester, was arrested in his home by the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office High Technology Crime Squad on child porn charges, the DA announced on Thursday, Aug. 8. Telesca was arraigned in Port Chester Village Court and charged with promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child and possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child, both felonies. …

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by Zak Failla
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Ex-State Corrections Officer From Area Sentenced For Having Child Porn Ex-State Corrections Officer From Area Sentenced For Having Child Porn
Ex-State Corrections Officer From Area Sentenced For Having Child Porn A former New York State corrections officer from the Hudson Valley will spend time behind bars after being sentenced for possessing child pornography. Alfred Tchorznicki, Jr. has been sentenced to a term of between five and 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to five felony counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child last month in Dutchess County. Tchorznicki was sentenced on Friday, July 26, and reportedly told that he "should have known the illegality of conduct" as a former state corrections officer, Joelle Morabito-Cruz, Dutchess County assistant district attorney, sa…

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by Zak Failla
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Orange County Man Arraigned On Child Sexual Abuse Charges Orange County Man Arraigned On Child Sexual Abuse Charges
Orange County Man Arraigned On Child Sexual Abuse Charges An Orange County man is facing charges for allegedly sexually abusing a minor. Vladimir Archer, 43, of Campbell Hall, was arraigned this week in Orange County Court on charges that include predatory sexual assault against a child and second-degree course of sexual conduct against a child. He has reportedly pleaded not guilty to the charges. Prosecutors have alleged that Archer sexually abused a minor under the age of 13 on multiple occasion. The child was also found to allegedly have pornography on his computer. Following his arraignment, Archer was released on a $75,000 bond and is schedu…

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by Zak Failla
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Alex Jones Accused Of Sending Families Of Sandy Hook Victims Emails Containing Child Porn Alex Jones Accused Of Sending Families Of Sandy Hook Victims Emails Containing Child Porn
Alex Jones Accused Of Sending Families Of Sandy Hook Victims Emails Containing Child Porn A Superior Court judge said she would make a decision on whether to sanction InfoWars host Alex Jones for claiming that attorneys tried to frame him following the discovery of child pornography in electronic files sent to the lawyers representing the families and victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. In a court filing on Monday, June 17,  lawyers for the families said that pornography was found in email metadata files Jones' attorney's filed as part of the discovery process in a defamation lawsuit.  The court filings also claimed that Jones accused one of the famil…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Northern Westchester Man Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Underage Girls In NY, CT Northern Westchester Man Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Underage Girls In NY, CT
Northern Westchester Man Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Underage Girls In NY, CT A Northern Westchester man will spend close to decades in prison for sex trafficking of minors in New York and Connecticut and production of child pornography. Victor Gonzalez, 41, of Millwood was sentenced to 19 1/2 years in prison in White Plains Federal Court on Friday, May 3 after pleading guilty on Jan. 24. In addition to the prison term, Gonzalez was sentenced to 10 years of supervised release and restitution in an amount to be determined by the court at a later date. "Victor Gonzalez admitted to the reprehensible crimes of trafficking underage girls for his commercia…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Feds Charge Tri-State Area Tour Company Founder With Trafficking Child Porn Feds Charge Tri-State Area Tour Company Founder With Trafficking Child Porn
Feds Charge Tri-State Area Tour Company Founder With Trafficking Child Porn The North Jersey founder of a nature tour company operating from the Jersey Shore north to Poughkeepsie and southern Connecticut was arrested by federal Homeland Security agents on charges of trafficking child porn. Vaughn Tiedeman, 46, of Living Adventure Tours, was ordered held without bail by a federal judge in Newark Monday afternoon on a charge of distributing child pornography. Between July 2018 and January 2019, Tiedeman, of West Milford, “distributed at least 50 videos and 100 images depicting the sexual abuse of children via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network,” U.S. Attorney Craig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Area Man Charged With Rape Of Child After Mother Informs Police Area Man Charged With Rape Of Child After Mother Informs Police
Area Man Charged With Rape Of Child After Mother Informs Police A 25-year-old area man has been charged with the rape of a minor after the mother of the victim became aware of the abuse in Putnam County. Marco Jacinto-Mendez of Southeast was arrested Tuesday for two counts of rape and promotion of a sexual performance by a child, all felonies, said New York State Police Trooper AJ Hicks. Troopers were alerted to the sexual assault by the mother of the victim that became aware an older man was having a relationship with her child, Hicks said. An investigation discovered Jacinto-Mendez had unlawful sexual contact with the child over a time period wh…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Offender Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Underage Girl Reports Move In Newburgh Offender Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Underage Girl Reports Move In Newburgh
Offender Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Underage Girl Reports Move In Newburgh A registered sex offender who was convicted of having sex with an underage girl has reported a move in Orange County. The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services issued an alert this week to Orange County residents regarding the residency of 57-year-old Dale Storms, who has moved from Ann Street to First Street in Newburgh. The Division of Criminal Justice Services has assigned Storms as a level two threat, which means he is at "moderate risk of a repeat offense." According to the Division of Criminal Justice Services, Storms had deviate sexual intercourse, sexual co…

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by Zak Failla
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Northern Westchester Youth Sports Photographer Admits To Possessing Child Porn Northern Westchester Youth Sports Photographer Admits To Possessing Child Porn
Northern Westchester Youth Sports Photographer Admits To Possessing Child Porn A 27-year-old Northern Westchester man who worked as a youth sports photographer has admitted to possession of child pornography. Emil Kaufman of Yorktown Heights pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography in district court in Springfield, Massachusetts on Wednesday, Aug. 29.  Kaufman was arrested in Great Barrington, Mass., on June 26, 2013 after an investigation into a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, which Kaufman used to download and share child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts.  A subsequent examination of Kaufman’s MacBook Pr…

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by Joe Lombardi