By Forum Staff
On Thursday, in federal court in Brooklyn, Davis Burgos-Collazo to 45 years in prison for five counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, two counts of distributing child pornography, one count of accessing child pornography with intent to view it and one count of committing a felony sexual offense involving minors while being a registered sex offender.
As part of the sentence, the Court ordered Burgos-Collazo to pay restitution of $33,000.
Burgos-Collazo, 45, was convicted by a federal jury in July 2022 following a one-week trial.
Photo Courtesy of U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of NY
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Peace called Burgos-Collazo a “master manipulator and sextortionist.”
As set forth in the government’s sentencing memorandum and related court proceedings, in 2020, Burgos-Collazo, of Jamaica, used at least 26 Instagram accounts to attempt to sexually exploit children as young as 9 years old. The defendant enticed the victims by pretending to be a modeling scout and by using accounts with names like “future models” and “preteen beauty pics.” After the defendant coerced a 10-year-old victim into performing live sex acts for him on Instagram and she pleaded with him to leave her alone, he threatened to post a naked picture of her online for her friends to see if she refused to provide him with additional sexually explicit materials. The FBI recovered over 100 photos and videos of child pornography on the defendant’s phone. Burgos-Collazo committed these crimes while he was a registered sex offender. In March 2006, he was convicted of sexually abusing and attempting to sexually abuse multiple minors, all of whom were under the age of eleven, and one as young as seven.
“With today’s sentence, the goal of incapacitating this master manipulator and sextortionist has been achieved,” said Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Breon Peace.
