A former teacher has pleaded guilty to attempting to disseminate indecent material to a minor, or in other words, sending a minor an X-rated video and trying to seduce her.
In actuality, Alexander Kravitz really sent the video to an undercover cop who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. The New York Daily News reports that NYPD officers arrested him at a motel where he thought he was going to make a porn movie with the minor.
In addition to all of this, child porn was found at his home.
The scariest thing about this case is that Kravitz was a teacher at William E. Grady Vocational High School. It is frightening to think that a man like this was around children so often.
When he is sentenced in February, he will reap all of the benefits of being a registered sex offender and lose his New York teaching credentials. He could also in sent to jail for up to 90 days.
I looked up the crime in the New York Penal Code and found that for the crime of disseminating indecent material to minors a person has to use a computer to communicate with a minor "either in words or imagines actual or simulated nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse." He also has to use that communication as he "importunes, invites or induces a minor to engage in sexual intercourse" (Section 235.22). It goes on to list other sexual conduct that would qualify.
When a crime is listed as an attempt, it usually goes down a level in its punishment. So this class D felony has become a class E felony (Section 110.05 Attempt to commit a crime).
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