A Staten Island man arrested on child sex exploitation charges gave a phone to a pal’s girlfriend apparently without realizing it still had video and photos he made with a 4-year-old girl, the feds allege.
Jon Consiglio, 39, was ordered locked up without bail after his arraignment Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court.
“The victim in this case, your honor, is a 4-year-old girl. Her mother is aware of it as of last night,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Dennehy said in court Wednesday.
Consiglio gave one of his phones away on Nov. 25 of last year, and the woman he gave it to passed it along to her sister on Sunday because she didn’t need it anymore, according to a criminal complaint.
That same day, the sister found two videos and a photo of a little girl forced into sex acts with an adult man, the feds allege. One video lasted more than three minutes, the other more than four, and involved multiple horrific acts, according to the complaint.
She contacted authorities, and on Monday, the FBI interviewed Consiglio’s pal, the pal’s girlfriend and her sister to learn more.
Both Consiglio’s friend and the friend’s girlfriend recognized the young victim, and said the male voice in the video resembled Consiglio’s voice.
When the feds interviewed another woman with ties to Consiglio, she also recognized the girl and Consiglio’s voice, and gave the feds access to a video taken inside Consiglio’s home in Staten Island’s Woodrow neighborhood, according to the complaint.
The setting of the child sex videos matched Consiglio’s bedroom, according to the feds. The tattoos on the man’s hands in the sex videos also matched photos of Consiglio’s hands on social media, the complaint alleges.
Consiglio’s lawyer, Samuel Jacobson of the Federal Defenders, did not make a bail application at Wednesday’s hearing. Jacobson declined comment Wednesday night.
If convicted of enticing or coercing a minor into producing child sexual exploitation material, Consiglio could face a mandatory minimum 15 years behind bars and a maximum of 30 years.
