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R’wood teacher busted for child porn
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
A Ridgewood middle school
teacher was arrested for
using a mobile app to pay for
child porn, prosecutors announced
on Tuesday.
Eric Paulino, 30, was charged with
possession of child pornography.
He was arraigned before the U.S.
District Court in Brooklyn on
Aug. 27 and released on a $250,000
bond.
“Paulino, while employed in a
position of trust as a New York
City school teacher, purchased
chi ld pornography on the
Internet, contributing to the
abuse and vict imizat ion of
children,” stated United States
Attorney Richard P. Donoghue.
“Prosecuting those who feed the
market for child pornography,
whether producers or consumers,
will always be a priority of
this of f ice and our law
enforcement partners.”
According to the complaint,
Paulino, who sources say works at
I.S. 93 in Ridgewood, allegedly used
the mobile payment app Venmo
to purchase child pornography.
During a court-authorized search
of Paulino’s Ridgewood home on
Aug. 27, Paulino allegedly admitted
to downloading and trading child
pornography on his cellphone.
During the search, Paulino
handed over his phone and
password to the FBI, who allegedly
found numerous images and videos
of children engaged in sexually
explicit conduct.
QNS has reached out to the
Department of Education and did
not receive a response prior to
press time.
“Teachers are trusted by parents
to protect and educate their
children, which makes the thought
of a teacher allegedly downloading
illegal child pornography all
that more disturbing,” stated
FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge
William F. Sweeney.
“The FBI New York Chi ld
Exploi tat ion and Human
Trafficking Task Force works
every day to stop predators from
exploiting children, and further
victimizing those exposed to
hands on offenders who create
images shared on the internet,”
Sweeney added.
Paulino is being prosecuted as
a part of Project Safe Childhood,
a nationwide initiative launched
by the Department of Justice
in May 2006 to combat the
growing epidemic of child sexual
exploitation and abuse.
For more information about
Project Safe Childhood, visit www.
projectsafechildhood.gov.
Eric Paulino was arrested for possessing child pornography on Aug. 27.
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