April 9, 2014 By Christian Murray
A 61-year-old East Elmhurst man was charged today for possessing child pornography.
The defendant, Michael Murray, was arrested after police discovered that he had several graphic images of children on his laptop.
Murray was caught after he took his computer to Best Buy at 50-01 Northern Boulevard to be repaired. When the technician booted up the laptop to fix it, he discovered a screen saver that showed 15 images of young girls posing provocatively or engaging in sex acts with adult men.
“The defendant is alleged to have had some very disturbing photographs of children being sexually abused on his computer,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement. “These photographs depict real children who will no doubt be emotionally and physically scarred for the rest of their lives.”
Murray is presently awaiting arraignment in Queens Criminal Court in Kew Gardens and is charged with 15 counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child. He faces up to four years in prison.
Brown said that when detectives went to Murray’s home he admitted that he knew what was on his screen saver.
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he obviously lives alone and has never has any visitors to be blatant about it.
It’s not like the best buy employee had to dig much. The guy was so deep into his perversion that he didn’t even care to hide anymore.
disgusting bastard.
At anonymous . Sad state of affairs to see that Rego is going to be the newest leader of the Sunnyside chamber of commerce. Is their no background check??? He may appear to be a NICE guy but there are a lot more people who could be a better represantve for Sunnyside. S he the man who owns pronto car service? Maybe Sunnyside residents should talk to the people who work for him!
Best buy best employee . Good on you who ever you are for turning this perv in. We need more people like u. Thank you.
“Can I help you?”
“Yeah, my screen saver is frozen”
Three cheers for the Best Buy employee who tuned this pervert in.
Isn’t he on the board of the chamber of commerce? Going to be voted president next week. Watch out Rigo…
Pig. They s
hould cut his genitals off.
I mean. How? Yes, he is a scumbag.
But he’s stupid enough to keep that on his screen saver, which he is then taking to Best Buy???
how childish of him.
Scumbag.
God help the children who fall prey to these depraved monsters.