“Trafficking in child pornography subjects the children in these images to continuing degradation and encourages abusers to seek new victims."
- U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf.
August 13, 2007 -
Robert S. Weinstein, a former teacher and sex offender, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, lifetime supervised release, and continued sex offender registration for possessing and distributing child pornography.
In 2005 the FBI seized a computer from an individual in South Carolina that had im
ages sent by Weinstein. They later found 54 still images and 60 video files of child pornography depicting victims ranging in ages from infancy to fourteen years on Weinstein's laptop. At the time of the search, Weinstein admitted trading images of child pornography and downloading those images from websites.
On June 2, 2006, Weinstein pleaded guilty to three counts of distribution and seven counts of possession of child pornography.
Department of Justice Press Release (Dated Aug 10, 2007)Weinstein was previously convicted in 1992 in Nassau County for Attempted Sexual Abuse in the First Degree after an incident involving a ten-year-old boy in an East Rockaway park and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, five years’ probation, and sex offender registration. At the time of his arrest, Weinstein was a teacher and choir director in the East Meadow School District.
Less than three months after completing his term of probation, in September 1998, Weinstein was arrested and convicted in Toronto, Canada, on a charge of Procuring Illicit Sex after soliciting a fourteen-year-old boy. Weinstein was sentenced to five months of imprisonment on this conviction.
