An employee of a by the feds Wednesday for allegedly extorting a boy into producing chil🌸d pornography and for trading the sick content with another perver👍t, authorities said.
The suspect, 30-year-old Brian Quinones, worked as a paraprofessional at Midwood H✤igh School – a job that put him in a one-on-one capacity with special needs students, according to federal authorities in Brooklyn.
From 2019 to 2020, the feds🅠 allege, Quinones traded more than 100 files that contained child🍷 pornography with another suspect who has since been charged with similar crimes.
Law enforcement executed a search warrant at Quinones’ Sheepshead Bay home, seized his electronic devices, and discovered chats he had with a 15-year-old boy, according to charging document💫s against him.
In the chats, he posed as a woman and e🔯xtorted the boy into sen🅘ding him sexually explicit images and videos, according to the feds.
He threatened to expose the boy a♊fter he sent him sexually explicit videꦛos, the documents state.
“I’m ready to make u famous. Any last words?” he threatened in one of the messages, according🏅 to the feds.
“To keep our children safe, we immediately moved this employee away from children when we learned of this inv🐠estigation last October. We will work with the FBI as they investigate these extremely d🍸isturbing allegations, and if convicted, we will move to terminate him,” a Department of Education spokesperson said in a statement.
Quinones faces a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted. Attorney information for him was not immediately avail🐼able.