{"id":335511,"date":"2026-09-02T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335511\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:14:08","slug":"wayne-county-man-charged-after-thousands-of-child-sexual-abuse-files-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335511\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne County man charged after thousands of child sexual abuse files found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario, N.Y. \u2014 A Wayne County man is facing a dozen felony charges after thousands of images and videos containing suspected child sexual abuse material were found on his cellphone, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p>The case began after the National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children received multiple CyberTipline reports involving apparent child sexual abuse material uploaded through the Kik messaging platform.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Behrendt, 47, of Ontario, was identified as a suspect, state police said. Authorities executed a search warrant July 28 at his home on Furnace Road, seizing several electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>A forensic examination later uncovered thousands of images and videos containing suspected child sexual abuse material on a cellphone, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>Behrendt surrendered to state police Thursday and was charged with two counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child and 10 counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child. He was taken to the Monroe County Jail for arraignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario, N.Y. \u2014 A Wayne County man is facing a dozen felony charges after thousands of images and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-335511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335511","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=335511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}