Courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The case was opened when an NYPD detective received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about a Gmail account that had uploaded two images possibly involving child exploitation.
By Forum Staff
They’ll be one less child pornographer on the streets for a while after Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Gia Morris, sentenced an Astoria man to one to three years in prison.
Charles Flores, 23, pleaded guilty to possessing a sexual performance video by a child after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent a cybertip to police that Flores had uploaded images of child pornography to his Google account in September 2015.
According to District Attorney Richard Brow, “The defendant has now been sentenced to prison time for uploading and saving thousands of images and videos of children – some as young as five – being sexually abused by adults. The defendant admitted when pleading guilty that his curiosity led to a sick obsession. Photos and videos of children being molested and abused are for all intents and purposes crime scene images. The victims are real people who will suffer with the memory of this abuse for the rest of their lives.”
The criminal charges say that an NYPD detective received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about a gmail account that had uploaded two images possibly involving child exploitation.
When interviewed by police, the defendant admitted that charlesf20@gmail.com was his email address. Authorities also conducted a forensic preview of Flores’ external hard drive, and found 20 images of prepubescent children roughly between the ages of five and 12 being vaginally and anally penetrated by adult males.
At the time of his arrest, the defendant told police he began seeking out child pornography to help his girlfriend and that this curiosity turned into an obsession. Further forensic analysis of the defendant’s hard drive, as well as other electronic devices in the defendant’s possession, revealed hundreds of videos and images of children as young as four years old being sexually abused by adults.
