SIX MEN BUSTED IN CHILD-PORN STING

Peter List, a 59 year old Levittown man who faces federal charges of child pornography, has been fired from his respiratory therapist job at North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove. The hospital suspended List after he was charged on August 28, 2006, and fired him September 26. List pleaded not guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to six counts of possession of child pornography, including thousands of images of children engaged in sex acts on a computer disk seized at his home.

As of March 29, 2007, List and four other men from Long Island and one from Staten Island have pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography after they downloaded images or movies from a hard-core Web site.  All are among 180 defendants arrested since October in more than 20 states as part of Operation Emissary, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into subscribers to a single fee-based Web site.  The other men are, Frank Schiavoni, 40, of Greenport, Theodore Sadowoski, Jr., 24, of Medford, Oscar Miller, 68, of West Babylon, and Robert Rupert, 21, of Bayport.  They pleaded guilty over the past two weeks in Central Islip.  Donald Ciaccio, 53, of Staten Island, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn.

The men face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, registration as sex offenders and a $250,000 fine.  Federal guidelines recommend a sentence of 6 1/2 to 8 years.  No sentencing date has been set.

(New York)