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A New Britain Borough man is facing a child pornography charge after multiple tips from Yahoo and Dropbox to local law enforcement regarding videos of young children being sexually abused by adults.
Vincent Varra, 31, has been charged with one felony count of possession of child pornography in connection with an investigation by Bucks County Detectives.
Investigators said they received three Internet Crimes Against Children tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Oct. 7, concerning video files that had been uploaded or stored to a Dropbox account and a Yahoo email account. The videos depicted young boys and girls — mostly around the ages of 5 and 6 — being sexually abused and raped by adults, according to the criminal complaint.
The accounts were eventually traced back to Varra, who was identified as the account holder, police said.
On Oct. 27, detectives made contact with Varra at his apartment — located along the 400 block of East Butler Avenue — and spoke with him about the investigation, the report states. Varra told police that he had recently closed his Yahoo account, and he also received notice from Norton Anti-Virus that his email address had been spotted on the dark web, according to the complaint.
When asked how certain he was that investigators would not find child pornography on his electronic devices, Varra allegedly replied “90%,” the report states. Police then recovered three iPhones, a laptop computer and a Playstation 4, according to the criminal complaint.
A forensic examination of the laptop computer revealed “numerous files that contained child pornography,” police said, including another video of an adult male sexually abusing a 5-year-old boy.
Court records show that charges were filed against Varra on Dec. 8, and he was taken into custody the following day and arraigned by District Judge Regina Armitage, who set bail at $100,000 unsecured.
Varra’s next court appearance is a preliminary hearing on Feb. 22 at 2 p.m.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using court records and the affidavit of probable cause.
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