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Slope girl target
of porn scheme
US Attorney: Man lured local teen to
Texas to engage in illicit sexual acts
COURIER LIFE, D M B G EC. 14–20, 2018 43
A teenage girl reported missing from
her Park Slope home in September left
the borough in the company of an outof
state man who met her online, and
convinced the 15-year-old to move to
his Texas motorhome as part of a sickening
child-pornography scheme, according
to a source familiar with the
incident.
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York Richard Donoghue
on Dec. 6 unsealed a federal
criminal complaint charging the 48-
year-old defendant with transporting
a minor across state lines to engage in
illegal sexual activity, which carries
a maximum sentence of life in prison,
according to John Marzulli, a spokesman
for Donoghue.
The man began his online relationship
with the teen in August, repeatedly
discussing his desire to have sex
with her, and telling her to send him
naked pictures of herself, according to
Marzulli.
She ultimately agreed to join him in
Texas, and he purchased an interstate
bus ticket for the girl, only to discover
she was too young to travel without an
adult, the spokesman said.
The defendant then rented a car
and, after telling the victim to “make
sure you are packed and ready to go,”
picked her up near her Brooklyn home
before driving her back to Texas, Marzulli
said.
Investigators traced the girl to the
man’s home in a trailer park using an
account she created for an adult website,
and a Sept. 14 e-mail she sent to
her mother saying she wanted to go
home, according to complaint documents.
Serving
Brooklyn
& Staten
Island
Over
20 Years
BY COLIN MIXSON
CHARGED: The defendant, whom federal
prosecutors allege transported a Park Slope
teen across state lines as part of a childporn
scheme. Limestone County Sheriffs Offi ce
Offi cers with Texas’s Limestone
County Sheriff’s Department found
the defendant while canvassing the
trailer park on Sept. 15, and he admitted
the girl was in his trailer, the documents
Investigators later obtained a
search warrant authorizing the Federal
the defendant’s electronic devices,
where they found sexually explicit images
The defendant, whom Texas authorities
in the process of being extradited to
Brooklyn for prosecution, according
to Marzulli.
Stroke
of Style
Painting
Bureau of Investigation to access
of the teen, according to the documents.
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