Woodhaven man convicted for stashing porn videos of kids as young as 6

By Jonathan Sperling

A Woodhaven man who maintained a collection of child pornography that featured kids as young as 2 years old engaging in sexually explicit acts and poses was convicted on more than 65 counts Monday.

The graphic content on Diego Guerra’s computer and other electronic devices included a 24-minute video of a teenage boy performing a sexual act on a girl whom authorities believed was between the ages of 6 and 8 years old. Acting Queens District Attorney John Ryan described the content as “vile” in a statement.

“These horrifying crimes should serve as [a] reminder to all that the internet must be policed in order to prevent further instances of children being violated and degraded in the worst imaginable ways,” Ryan added. “The defendant deserves to be adequately sentenced for his role in this despicable crime.”

Guerra was convicted after a two-week-long jury trial presided over by Justice Michael Aloise. At sentencing on July 30, Guerra faces up to seven years in prison.

Investigators first linked Guerra to the content on Jan. 5, 2017 through his IP address. Child pornography images were uploaded to ARES, a peer-to-peer file sharing network, and detectives determined that Guerra shared multiple videos of children between the ages of 6 and 12 engaging in explicit sexual acts with other underage children and several adult males.

The 24-minute video was discovered by investigators on Jan. 19, 2017. Investigators executed a search warrant at Guerra’s home on July 27, 2017 and, once inside, encountered Guerra, who admitted to owning a laptop and several other electronic devices retrieved from the home.

A forensic exam performed on the laptop recovered 60 additional images of children between the ages of 2 and 12 with their genitals exposed and engaging in lewd sexual acts.