{"id":188253,"date":"2026-04-07T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:22:07","slug":"new-york-state-police-arrest-amsterdam-man-on-child-sexual-exploitation-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188253\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police arrest Amsterdam man on child sexual exploitation charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A 21-year-old Amsterdam man was arrested April 2, 2026, after an investigation into reported child sexual exploitation images, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police of Fonda, with assistance from the Troop G Computer Crimes Unit, the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Amsterdam Police Department, arrested 21-year-old Dakota Kilgore of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Kilgore was charged with promoting a sexual performance by a child, a class D felony, and possessing a sexual performance by a child, a class E felony. State Police said he is accused of promoting and possessing child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest followed an investigation and the execution of a search warrant at Kilgore\u2019s residence in Amsterdam on April 2, 2026. State Police said the investigation began with a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.<\/p>\n<p>Kilgore was arrested and processed at State Police in Fonda, then arraigned in Amsterdam City Court. He was remanded to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $5,000 cash, $10,000 bond or a $50,000 partially secured bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amsterdam, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A 21-year-old Amsterdam man was arrested April 2, 2026, after an investigation into reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-188253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}