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☷Recidivist Sex Offender Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Attempted Enticement of 12 Year Old and 9 Year Old Girls and Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography
Federal Bureau of Investigation ( By Press Release office)
Apr 29,2022
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Recidivist Sex Offender Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Attempted Enticement Of 12 - Year - Old And 9 - Year - Old Girls And Attempted Receipt Of Child Pornography Damian Williams , the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York , announced that STEVE ROSADO , a registered sex offender , was sentenced today by the Honorable Jed S . Rakoff to 20 years in prison for attempting to entice two minor girls to engage in illegal sexual activity , and for attempting to receive child pornography after having been previously convicted of sex offenses involving minors . ROSADO was arrested in December 2020 and pled guilty to the charges in November 2021 . U . S . Attorney Damian Williams said: “Steve Rosado tried to – and in some cases , did – prey on the most defenseless members of our community . He attempted to engage in repeated sexual activity with multiple children , some of whom he believed to be as young as 9 years old , even after having been twice before convicted of sex offenses and required to register as a sex offender . Crimes like this can have devastating and lasting effects on minor victims , and I once again thank the FBI and the NYPD for their work in investigating and arresting Rosado before he could harm any others . ”According to public court filings:On November 29 , 2020 , an undercover FBI agent ( the “UC” ) , posing as the mother of a 12 - year - old girl and a 9 - year - old girl , initiated a series of conversations with ROSADO , then 41 years old , via an online messaging service . The UC and ROSADO later exchanged telephone numbers , and they proceeded to communicate over the next week via the online messaging service , text message , and lengthy telephone conversations that were recorded by the UC . In hundreds of text messages , and hours of calls , ROSADO repeatedly expressed , in graphic and unambiguous terms , his desire to engage in repeated sexual activity with both children – including both oral and vaginal sex – as part of their “new routine together . ” To help alleviate any concerns the UC might have regarding ROSADO having sexual relations with her young children , ROSADO provided the UC with his recent test results for COVID - 19 and HIV , and he discussed what he and the UC could do if he were to impregnate one of the children . The UC and ROSADO arranged to meet at a bar in Manhattan on the evening of December 7 , 2020 , with the understanding that they would return to the UC’s apartment afterward and ROSADO would then engage in sexual activity with the children . On the evening in question , ROSADO met the UC at the agreed - upon location . After the two of them left the bar and began walking toward the UC’s purported apartment , law enforcement arrested ROSADO . ROSADO was at the time in possession of gifts for the children – including dolls and a stuffed animal – and an overnight bag containing , among other things , lubricant . That same day , law enforcement seized multiple electronic devices belonging to ROSADO . Subsequent searches of those devices by law enforcement , pursuant to search warrants , revealed that ROSADO had for weeks been communicating online with several other individuals who purported to be minors – some purporting to be as young as 13 years old – in an ongoing effort not only to receive child pornography , but also to persuade the young victims to move to New York to live with him , so that he could engage in sexual activity with them , impregnate them , and eventually engage in sexual activity with their future children . ROSADO’s electronic devices further revealed that during this same period , ROSADO was engaged in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 16 - year - old female victim . At the time he committed the aforementioned offenses , ROSADO was a registered sex offender , having twice before been convicted of sex offenses involving minors . In 2004 , ROSADO was convicted of possessing a sexual performance by a child , in violation of New York State Penal Law § 263 . 16; and in 2005 , ROSADO was convicted of four counts of rape in the second degree , in violation of New York State Penal Law § 130 . 30 ( 1 ) , four counts of rape in the third degree , in violation of New York State Penal Law § 130 . 25 ( 2 ) , and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child , in violation of New York State Penal Law § 260 . 10 ( 1 ) . The 2004 conviction arose out of ROSADO’s stalking and attempted kidnapping of a 13 - year - old female victim he met online , and the 2005 conviction arose out of ROSADO’s having had sexual intercourse approximately 24 times with a 14 - year - old female victim . As a result of his prior convictions , ROSADO was incarcerated from December 2005 to October 2013 . * * *In addition to his prison term , ROSADO , 42 , of the Bronx , New York , was sentenced to lifetime supervised release . Mr . Williams praised the outstanding investigative work of the FBI - NYPD Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force . This case is being handled by the Office’s General Crimes Unit . Assistant United States Attorneys Jonathan L . Bodansky , Jane Y . Chong , and Elinor L . Tarlow are in charge of the prosecution .
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