8-Year Sentence For Man Who Downloaded Infant Rape Videos

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – A 30-year-old Long Island man who admitted that he had been using a dark web forum for about a year to post and download child pornography and to chat about torture of children and animals was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday, authorities said.

Christopher Robert Grief, of Ridge, pleaded guilty in June to receiving child pornography in interstate and foreign commerce.

United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco sentenced Grief, of Ridge, to eight years imprisonment as well as lifetime supervised release after prison sentence, during which time he must register as a sex offender and he will not be allowed unsupervised contact with minors.

According to court filings, Grief, who used the online identity “Mookie,” frequented online dark web forums devoted to the sexual torture of infants and toddlers. At the time of his arrest in September 2014, when a search warrant was executed on his residence, Grief admitted that he had a sexual interest in young children.

Grief also admitted that he had made and posted to the online forum a mutilation and torture video where he had abused a rat. Law enforcement recovered child pornography, including a video of the rape of a 3-month-old baby on Grief’s computer.

“He also liked to have sex with stuffed animals,” FBI agent Danielle Messineo said in a criminal complaint, the New York Daily News reported.

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