STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 75-year-old registered sex offender faces new charges that he possessed child pornography on Staten Island.
George Tyson of Fiske Avenue in Westerleigh was investigated by the FBI’s New York Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, according to court documents.
Tyson allegedly possessed at least one video in June showing children under the age of 16 engaged in sexual conduct. Some of the children appeared to be as young as 4 years old, according to court documents.
“I do look at child porn that I download,” Tyson allegedly told an FBI agent in June. “I do not talk to anyone. I do not trade it with anyone.
“I know it is illegal so I delete it after I use it. I haven’t downloaded it in a month and I try not to look at it, but then I look at it and delete it.”
Tyson was arrested in September and has been charged with felony counts of possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child and possessing a sexual performance by a child.
The defendant has pleaded not guilty to all charges and has been released on non-monetary conditions. He is due back in Criminal Court in St. George on Nov. 19, according to public records.
Tyson is listed on the state Division of Criminal Justice Services Sex Offender Registry for a conviction in 2006 after he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in federal court in Brooklyn. He was sentenced to three years in prison and three years of probation for an incident in 2004.
An attorney for the defendant did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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