Category Archive for : ‘PHOTOGRAPHER’

September 26, 2019
Mimi Elkalla
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VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) – A professional photographer pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting teenage girls during modeling sessions in Carlsbad.

Robert Koester, 52, originally pleaded not guilty to 23 felony charges late last year , but he reached a plea agreement.

He now faces 25 years in state prison for his crimes against four teenage girls, which include rape, possession and production of child porn, and sexual battery.

Some of the survivors of Koester’s crimes sat in the Vista courtroom beside their families as he pleaded guilty behind a glass window.

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SCPD 12/2/13 William Iglesias, a 39 year old photographer, was arrested for secretly recording employeesin a photography studio bathroom in Brentwood.  A 24 year old female employee of Foto Y VideoAlexander, located at 1114 Suffolk Avenue, discovered images of herself on her boss’computer.  The images were captured without her knowledge while she was in the studio’sbathroom.  Detectives discovered a remote recording device hidden in the business’bathroom.  Recordings of another employee, a 19 year old female, were also discovered. Iglesias, the owner of the business was arrested today and charged with Unlawful

Alberto Maldonado, 39, was arrested for molesting a 12 year old boy outside the victim’s Arlington home.  Maldonado approached the boy in the front yard of his Lockman Avenue home at around 10 p.m. Sunday.  He is charged with sexual abuse and child endangerment.

(Staten Island, New York)

Nick Sorrentino, a 61 year old convicted sex offender, was arrested for fatally bludgeoning a former gay lover in a Murray Hill apartment.  The July 10 arrested came after cops matched saliva left on a beverage can to Sorrentino’s DNA profile.  He is being held without bail on a murder charge.  He is accused of repeatedly smashing Jose Raul Prieto, 70, in the head with a fire extinguisher and then strangling him in his apartment on East 35th Street.  According to the New Jersey State Police sex offender Web site,

Andre Durham, a 20 year old Woodside man, was arrested on child-endangerment and assault charges.  He allegedly kissed an bit a 3 year old girl’s neck while she was sleeping in November.  When her mother asked about the marks on her neck, the girl pointed to Durham – a family acquaintance.  He was arrested and could face up to a year in jail if convicted.

(Queens, New York)

New York Post/Tatiana Delgiannakis

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Richard Gagliardotto, a 40 year old Flushing man, was arrested for allegedly raping a 14 yearrnold girl in his home. Gagliardotto met the girl on an adult phone party line in March. They bothrnlied about their ages at first and after several phone conversations, the suspect asked to meet therngirl. She refused and admitted to being a teenager, yet he repeatedly asked that she meet him atrnhis house. The girl then went to his 151st Street home and he sexually abused her.

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(Queens, New York)

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