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Teacher Gets 3 Months in Jail After Trying to Make Porn with Teen
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 6, 2010
Modified Jan 6, 2010
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You may recall, with revulsion, the arrest last January of 27-year-old Brighton Beach high school teacher Alexander Kravitz, who was busted in a Queens hotel room where he hoped to make a porn video with a 14-year-old girl. But the girl did not exist—Kravitz had been communicating with an undercover detective online for six weeks, using the screen name EVRYDAYGURLS to send lurid messages and X-rated video to the "girl." After the arrest, police found a porno collection which included images of sex with children ranging from in age from 13 to infants...stashed in the Gravesend house he shared with his mother and sister.
Anyway, Kravitz was looking at a possible four year prison sentence, but yesterday he pleaded guilty to attempting to disseminate indecent material to a minor, as part of a deal for a 90-day jail term and five years' probation. The Daily News reports that Kravitz will also have to turn over his computer, forfeit his teaching license, and register as a sex offender. Infants, dude.
But some, apparently, think this whole thing is just a big misunderstanding—as one commenter on BadBadTeacher.com explains, "After they arrested Mr Kravitz they realized they did not have a common pedophile. They had a hard working young guy with a strong sense of curiosity to get to the bottom of this FAKE 14 year old girl that he KNEW wasn’t a 14 year old girl. SO Sgt. Robert Minca and the rest of his LINCH mob began to weave a web of lies and false truths in order to make his case look Just. I have dealt with these ENTRAPPERS before online I would get random Instant messages in chat rooms or from posts."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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