A Melville man was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison Monday on child pronography and coercion charges.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said of the sentencing of Bradley Garyn, “This defendant exploited numerous young and impressionable teenagers in order to satisfy his own prurient and repugnant desires. The actions by this defendant will not be tolerated in Suffolk County, and the term of imprisonment he will serve for these crimes, as well as the orders of protection we have obtained on behalf of these victims, will ensure that this defendant cannot continue to engage in such abhorrent criminal behavior.”
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, in collaboration with the Suffolk County Police Department’s Computer Crimes Unit, began investigating Garyn in September 2020, after a girl told law enforcement that the defendant coerced her into providing him with explicit photographs and videos via Snapchat.
The investigation found that Garyn established contact with multiple juvenile females ranging in age from 12 to 16 on Snapchat under multiple usernames including “ipay4feetpics,” “paying4feetpics” and “PayU4Selfies.” The defendant offered $10 payment in exchange for “selfies” or photographs of the girls’ feet.
After establishing communication with the victims, Garyn solicited increasingly explicit photographs and videos in exchange for higher amounts of money, up to $500. In one instance, Garyn coerced a victim into sending him sexually explicit photographs and video by threatening to disseminate intimate images of her.
Garyn was arrested in December 2020.
Garyn, 29, pleaded guilty to the following charges on September 19, 2022 before Acting County
Court JudgeKaren M. Wilutis:
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- Four counts of Use of a Child in a Sexual Performance;
- Four counts of Promoting Sexual Performance by a Child;
- One count of Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child;
- Four counts of Disseminating Indecent Materials to a Minor in the First Degree;
- Three counts of Coercion in the First Degree;
- Five counts of Criminal Solicitation in the Third Degree;
- Five counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child; and
- One count of Criminal Solicitation in the Fourth Degree.
Garyn admitted that he had used Snapchat to lure young girls (ranging from ages 12 to 16) by offering them Amazon gift codes in exchange for pictures of their feet and faces.
The defendant admitted he groomed the girls so that he could later coerce them into sending him nude
and sexually explicit pictures and videos of themselves.
He was sentenced Monday by Judge Karen M. Wilutis.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Anne E. Davis of the Violent Criminal
Enterprises Bureau.