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Posing as a fifteen year old girl, undercover detectives for Westchester County PD trapped a predatory pedophile using AOL’s messenger service to entice young girls into participating in sexual activity with him.
In early January 2009, Luis Antonio Rebutti, using instant messaging, contacted an America Online profile maintained by an undercover detective with the Westchester County Police Department. In the profile, the detective posed as a 15-year-old girl.
Over the course of several weeks, the defendant communicated, using instant messaging and e-mails, with the detective. During those communications, Rebutti attempted to persuade, induce, and entice the undercover detective to engage in sexual activity with him.
Rebutti told the detective to pretend that she was 18 years old, instead of 15. On January 20, 2009, the defendant went to the Eldorado Diner on the border of Elmsford and Tarrytown, New York, to meet the 15-year-old girl for the purposes of engaging in sexual activity with her, and was arrested.
Rebutti is charged with one count of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and faces of a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 120 months in prison.
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Rebutti, 43, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Cathy Seibel in White Plains federal court to a charge of using the Internet to attempt to entice, induce, and persuade an undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old girl to meet Rebutti for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Seibel on March 12, 2010.
Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Westchester County Department of Public Safety.
Assistant United States Attorneys SARAH R. KRISSOFF and MARCIA S. COHEN are in charge of the prosecution.
Meanwhile, another pedophile was caught by Westchester County PD using similar methods.
From October 20, to December 1, 2009, Alfred Doty had numerous instant message exchanges and telephone conversations with undercover law enforcement officers from the Westchester County Police Department posing as a 15-year-old girl.
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and THOMAS BELFIORE, the Commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Public Safety, announced that Doty, 54, of Monroe, Connecticut, was arrested yesterday on charges of enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
During the recorded telephone conversations and instant message exchanges, Doty and the undercover law enforcement officers discussed meeting to engage in sexual activity. Doty was arrested yesterday morning in Elmsford, New York, as he was driving to meet up with the undercover officer.
Doty was presented in White Plains federal court before United States Magistrate Judge PAUL E. DAVISON yesterday afternoon. He was detained pending a hearing scheduled for today at 2:30 p.m. If convicted, Doty faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life imprisonment.
