Images Included Rape of An Infant
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx man has been indicted for possessing on his cell phone images of children forced to perform sex acts.
District Attorney Clark said, “The images allegedly possessed by the defendant are absolutely horrifying. Any crime against children will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
District Attorney Clark said Eric Levi, 64, was indicted on 11 counts of Possessing an Obscene Sexual Performance of a Child and 11 counts of Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child. He was arraigned today before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Laurence Busching. His bail was continued at $50,000 cash/$150,000 bond. Levi is due back in court on March 25, 2025.
According to the investigation, on January 8, 2025, New York City Department of Probation personnel visited the defendant at a homeless shelter on Creston Avenue where he was living. The defendant, a disbarred attorney, was on probation for a child pornography conviction. The Probation officers requested to examine his cellphone as part of the defendant’s conditions of probation. The officers allegedly found images showing children performing sex acts, including a video depicting a man raping an infant.
They also found a conversation the defendant allegedly had with an unknown individual through a social media app, in which he requested child sexual abuse material.
District Attorney Clark thanked New York City Department of Probation Officers Michael Tarello and David Nguyen of the Department’s Intelligence Division Cyber Unit for their work on the investigation.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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