A New Hyde Park man has been charged with promoting a sexual performance by a child and other crimes after allegedly paying a 14-year old girl to perform a sex act and take lewd photos and videos of him in a Flushing park and trying to pay a 12-year-old girl to take photos of him, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office.
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A New Hyde Park man has been charged with promoting a sexual performance by a child and other crimes after allegedly paying a 14-year old girl to perform a sex act and take lewd photos/videos of him in a Flushing park as well as trying to pay a 12-year-old girl to take photos of him, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Thursday that 32-year-old James Villarruel, of 270th Street in New Hyde Park, was arraigned on an 11-count complaint charging him with promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, promoting a sexual performance by a child, felony luring a child, patronizing a person for prostitution in the second degree, forcible touching, public lewdness in the first degree, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, stalking in the fourth degree, sexual abuse in the third degree and harassment in the second degree.
According to the charges, on June 15, Villarruel followed a 12-year-old girl walking home from her middle school on Colden Street in Flushing at approximately 2:30 p.m. when he approached her and asked, “What are you going to get your dad for Father’s Day” and, “Do you have any money.” He proceeded to give the child approximately $90 and told her she was pretty and that he wanted to do a photo shoot with her in nearby Kissena Park.
As they walked toward the park, Villarruel allegedly placed his thumb on the girl’s face. The girl secretively took a photo of Villarruel with her phone and told him she needed to call her mother. The girl held her phone near her chest and Villarruel slapped it out of her hand and…
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