Man busted for making child porn thanks to Zillow pics: Cops
Larry Albino (Adult Correctional Institute).
Cops in Rhode Island were able to arrest a man who allegedly produced child pornography after the background of the abuse videos matched photos that were posted on a Zillow.com listing.
Larry W. Albino, 50, is facing charges of production of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Rhode Island said in a press release. According to the criminal complaint, a Rhode Island State Police detective on a federal task force received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone had uploaded 10 videos portraying child pornography through a Kik account. The videos showed a man masturbating in front of a nude toddler girl, cops wrote. She also touched his penis in the video, per cops.
Investigators tracked the IP address of the person to a home on Waterman Avenue in North Providence. Detectives searched for the home address and a previous apartment rental listing on Zillow popped up.
“A review of the listing photographs of the kitchen revealed a black and brown speckled countertop, brown hardwood floors, a white dishwasher, white cabinets with silver knobs, and a hunter green backsplash,” detectives wrote.
The alleged abuse videos had the same features, the complaint said. In addition, the man in the video was wearing bright, multicolored sandals, according to cops. Police learned that Albino lived in the apartment. After obtaining a search warrant, officers went to Albino’s home on Sept. 17. He was wearing the same sandals as in the video, according to the complaint. It was clear that the videos were recorded in his apartment, police said.
Post Miranda, Albino allegedly admitted to taking the videos of himself and the girl a month or two ago and uploading them to Kik. He claimed he wanted to sell the videos to someone he met on the app whom he described as a “perv,” the affidavit said. Albino also allegedly admitted to taking additional videos of him sexually abusing the girl but deleted them. He said he knew what he was doing was “stupid and wrong,” cops wrote.
Police arrested Albino and took him to the Adult Corrections Institute. Albino also is facing state child pornography charges and remains in jail without bond.
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