New Paltz Grad Student Faces Child Porn Charge

NEW PALTZ, NY — A graduate student at SUNY New Paltz who did local student-teaching was arrested Dec. 12 and accused of possessing child porn. Jacob Delany worked in the Kingston school district during the last school year, officials acknowledged.

The Hudson Valley Post reported a statement from officials on a protected part of the district's website. It said in part that “ Delaney did course field work with The SUNY New Paltz Numeracy Club at Chambers Elementary School in 2018 and student-taught a fourth-grade class at Myer Elementary School from January-March 2019."

School district officials said he was always supervised when working with children, the Hudson Valley Post reported.

Delany, 22, is from Holtsville on Long Island.

According to the FBI, the criminal complaint filed against Delaney alleges that he possessed child pornography on his computer and an external hard drive in New Paltz, including videos of teens and young boys.

If convicted, Delaney faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years, a mandatory term of supervised release of 5 years and up to life, mandatory registration as a sex offender, and a maximum $250,000 fine.

This case is being investigated by the FBI and its Child Exploitation Task Force, and the New York State Police Troop F Campus Sexual Assault Victim’s Unit and Highland Barracks, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alicia Giglio Suarez.

This case is prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims.