Massapequa Man Sentenced to Two Life Terms For Sexually Abusing Young Boy: Report

A Massapequa man with a history of sexually abusing children was sentenced on Wednesday to two mandatory life terms after he was found with hundreds of pictures of him sexually abusing a young boy last year.

In 2013, Jay Kroll, 59, was found to have been accessing child pornography and Homeland Security found the pictures of the sexual abuse, according to a previous Patch article.

He was sentenced to six years in prison in the 1990s for sodomizing an 11-year-old boy.

According to a report in Newsday, the victim in that case testified in court on Wednesday stating that: “My life changed. I couldn’t understand what happened to me. My childhood was taken away from me. After that I never felt the same . . . because of the abuse, I turned to drugs."

Kroll's lawyer Stuart Grossman claimed it was not fair to give “a life sentence for someone who didn’t kill anybody," Newsday reports.

District Judge Leonard Wexler made the decision to sentence Kroll to two life terms stated that he did not usually impose life sentences but that this situation was "exceptional," according to Newsday.