NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Prosecutors accused a 43-year-old NYPD officer of possessing child pornography and having video sex chats with two underage girls on the first day of his federal trial in Brooklyn Tuesday.
Police arrested Timothy Martinez in February 2020, five months after a raid on his Staten Island apartment yielded over 400 child porn files on his laptop and explicit Skype chat logs from video calls with two underage girls.
One of the girls was only 13 years old when Martinez contacted her online, according to prosecutors. Both of the girls are expected to testify during the trial.
Federal law enforcement learned of Martinez’s alleged misdeeds after he paid a Twitter user he believed to be an underage girl for explicit images of herself.
Martinez, who was hired by the NYPD in 2006, faces charges for possession of child pornography, receiving and attempting to receive child pornography and sexual exploitation of a child.
When he was first charged, the department suspended him without pay. Due to a state law that puts a 30-day limit on civil service suspensions without pay, he is now suspended with pay.
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