Long Island teacher who pretended to be a minor to fool kids into sending dirty pics hit with unsettling new charges: report
An allegedly skeezy former Long Island teacher was slapped with new child porn charges — months after New Jersey cops said he posed as a minor to troll kids for explicit photos.
Ryan McCaffery, 37, trudged into a Suffolk County courtroom Monday to face arraignment on a slew of sickening sex crime charges, including promoting a sexual performance of a child under 17 and possession of child porn, court records show.
The Ridge man is accused of asking kids under the age of 14 for nude photos on Snapchat, as well as engaging in sexual acts during the degenerate chats, Newsday first reported.
The chats unfolded in December, police said.
3 Ryan McCaffery was arrested a second time this week on accusations he had explicit online chats with children.
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3 McCaffery resigned from Riverhead High School before he was charged in New Jersey.
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3 Both cases against McCaffery resulted from a New York State Police cyber crime probe, cops said.
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McCaffery, a former social studies teacher and coach at Riverhead High School, had been arrested during February in a separate, but connected Bergen County, New Jersey case.
Garden State cops said McCaffery had requested nude photos from two kids under the age of 13 during explicit online chats in 2022.
Those accusations arose from a New York State Police cyber crime investigation that led to a Jan. 17 raid on McCaffery's home, police said.
McCaffery sat for a joint interview with state and Bergen County police that led to the New Jersey charges, cops said.
He resigned from Riverhead schools shortly before those charges dropped — and school officials were steadfast they didn't involve local kids.
Likewise, the kids allegedly victimized in the new case aren't Riverhead students, Newsday reported.
McCaffery pleaded not guilty to the 11 counts leveled by Suffolk County prosecutors and a judge set bail with non-monetary conditions, records show.
He's next due to appear in New Jersey court on Thursday, and June 16 in Long Island.
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