CHILD PORN FELON DIES IN APPARENT SUICIDE
Newsday/Robert E. Kessler
7/2/13
Michael Kelly Reiner, a 46 year old teacher at a Long Island school for gifted students andboasted about having a fetish for young boys, slavery and cannibalism, was arrested for havingchild-pornography videos on his home computer. He was arrested in the parking lot at Long IslandSchool for the Gifted, in Huntington, after classes in November 2006 following an investigationthat began when he was stopped by Canadian Border Patrol officials on August 4. He told them he wasentering Canada to visit a friend who shares his affinity for little boys and flesh-eating. He toldthem he did not actually practice cannibalism. I like kids. They're fun, he told the borderagents, I say I'm going to eat them, but I'm only joking. The kids always laugh. Reinerpleaded not guilty to federal child pornography charges in connection with images investigators saythey found on his computers. He allegedly e-mailed a picture of one of his students to acannibalism fetishist in California. Federal prosecutor Allen Bode said that Reiner sent thepicture of the unidentified boy using a computer owned by the school.
Parents told a federal judge on October 4 that Reiner was actually a caring and devotedteacher who wouldn't harm anyone.
Reiner was indicted on October 23, on 10 counts of possessing child pornography as hisattorney prepared a defense that claims the images were the result of unwanted e-mail andspam.
As of November 2, Reiner could be released on bail within 48 hours after afederal magistrate found that electronic monitoring and other restrictions were enough to ensurethe protection of children. Magistrate Kathleen Tomlinson recommended that Reiner be releasedto the custody of his brother at an undisclosed residence. Reiner should wear an electronicdevice that would blare and alert authorities to his location if he left the address withoutnotifying them first.
As of March 22, 2007, Reiner pleaded guilty to the federal charge that he possessed childpornography. He faces up to 10 years in prison and probation when he is sentenced August10.
Reiner, now 52, was found on a bank of the Hudson River in upstate DutchessCounty. He apparently took his own life after serving a sentence for child pornography.
(New York)
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