02-19-2007, 04:46 AM
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Website Host Possessed Child Pornography
QUEENS---A Bronx man who maintains an unofficial fan website based on the "Opie and Anthony" radio show has been sentenced to four months in jail after admitting to possessing nearly a hundred images of young children involved in sexual activity on his personal laptop.
"The photos that the defendant has admitted to possessing were actual children who have been victimized and sexually exploited for no other purpose than to satisfy the prurient desires of sexual predators", Queens district attorney Richard Brown said. "This case should serve as a warning to all such predators that the law enforcement community will do everything within its power to protect underage children."
Edwin Morales, 38, presently of 2625 Third Avenue in the Bronx. Morales, who worked as a limousine driver, pleaded guilty on Jan. 9 to possessing a sexual performance by a child before Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt who imposed the determinate sentence of four months in jail and 10 years' probation. Morales was also ordered to register as a Level One sex offender.
According to Brown, Morale's wife discovered child pornography on his personal laptop computer and notified police. At the time of his arrest on Nov. 10, Morales that the Acer laptop being held by the police was his and that he had possessed it while living at 34-16 Astoria Boulevard in the Astoria section of Queens.
Brown said Morales also admitted that he maintained a fan website (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.oavirus.com">http://www.oavirus.com</a><!-- w -->) based on the radio show, "Opie and Anthony" and that he received unsolicited mail, including a CD containing images and video clips of children engaged in sexual activity which he had downloaded onto his personal laptop computer.
In pleading guilty, Morales admitted that he possessed more than 95 images on his personal laptop depicting young children less then 15 years of age engaging in sexual acts.
Brown noted that there was no evidence that either Opie and Anthony or their radio show was involved in the defendant's criminal conduct. 2-15-07
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Website Host Possessed Child Pornography
QUEENS---A Bronx man who maintains an unofficial fan website based on the "Opie and Anthony" radio show has been sentenced to four months in jail after admitting to possessing nearly a hundred images of young children involved in sexual activity on his personal laptop.
"The photos that the defendant has admitted to possessing were actual children who have been victimized and sexually exploited for no other purpose than to satisfy the prurient desires of sexual predators", Queens district attorney Richard Brown said. "This case should serve as a warning to all such predators that the law enforcement community will do everything within its power to protect underage children."
Edwin Morales, 38, presently of 2625 Third Avenue in the Bronx. Morales, who worked as a limousine driver, pleaded guilty on Jan. 9 to possessing a sexual performance by a child before Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt who imposed the determinate sentence of four months in jail and 10 years' probation. Morales was also ordered to register as a Level One sex offender.
According to Brown, Morale's wife discovered child pornography on his personal laptop computer and notified police. At the time of his arrest on Nov. 10, Morales that the Acer laptop being held by the police was his and that he had possessed it while living at 34-16 Astoria Boulevard in the Astoria section of Queens.
Brown said Morales also admitted that he maintained a fan website (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.oavirus.com">http://www.oavirus.com</a><!-- w -->) based on the radio show, "Opie and Anthony" and that he received unsolicited mail, including a CD containing images and video clips of children engaged in sexual activity which he had downloaded onto his personal laptop computer.
In pleading guilty, Morales admitted that he possessed more than 95 images on his personal laptop depicting young children less then 15 years of age engaging in sexual acts.
Brown noted that there was no evidence that either Opie and Anthony or their radio show was involved in the defendant's criminal conduct. 2-15-07