A New York City theater teacher has been sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison after he was busted with more than 1,000 images and videos of child sex abuse, some of them involving kids as young as age six.
Besides the trove of child porn, some of which included “abuse and rape of children, infants and toddlers,” Anthony Michael Souza allegedly had sex with an underage teen for more than a year.
He also boasted about “grooming” one of his young students.
All is detailed in a statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
“New York City parents trusted Anthony Michael Souza to keep their children safe,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “Souza betrayed that trust by sharing ghastly child pornography and preying on minors, including his own students.”
The sentence is the result of a
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