More details in local woman's FBI arrest
NORWICH – Two people with Norwich residences were brought to federal court Monday to answer to charges concerning the prostitution of a minor and the production of child pornography.
Linda O’Connor, 46, of Norwich, and Dean Sacco, 49, originally of Jersey City, N.J., were arrested Sunday by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and charged with several child abuse and sex charges.
“They’re being charged with a number of different federal charges including buying and selling of a child, production of child pornography, traveling interstate to engage in sexual acts with a child, and also possession of child pornography,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Miro Lovric.
The female victim, who is now 14, told police that she was threatened if she refused to comply. The charges in the complaint allegedly took place between 2006 and 2007.
Sacco and O’Connor had their names first tied together by authorities Nov. 26 of 2006, following a complaint by the victim to the Department of Social Services that she was “very uncomfortable” around Sacco and found him “creepy.” Following the complaint, Family Court Judge W. Howard Sullivan issued an order to O’Connor to keep the victim away from Sacco.
However, on March 22, 2007, the Norwich Police Department arrested O’Connor for not obeying the order after receiving a second complaint from the girl that Sacco had raped her. O’Connor was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal contempt.
“There was a court order issued by Judge Sullivan, November 22 of 2006, not to let (victim) to be in the presence of Dean Sacco unsupervised. I ignored the order because I trusted Dean and did not see any reason to follow it,” said O’Connor in her statement to police at the time.
O’Connor also said that if she had known Sacco was having an “improper relationship” with the victim, she would have stopped it and had him arrested.
The victim was then removed from the her custody.
Following O’Connor’s arrest, police investigators focused on Sacco and had the victim place a controlled call to him while he was in New Jersey.
“Sacco admitted in substance, that he had sexual contact with the victim,” said Special FBI Agent James T. Lyons Jr., in written testimony.
Sacco was later arrested in New Jersey on March 19, 2007 after apparently attempting suicide, Lyons said in the federal complaint.
Sacco was then transported back to Chenango and charged with several sex crimes, including three counts of first degree rape.
The District Attorney’s Office later said Sacco was the landlord at the victim’s residence and allegedly exploited the girl sexually in exchange for rent reductions. Investigators declined to answer questions regarding O’Connor’s involvement at the time, saying it was an open case.
Police continued to investigate the crimes and uncovered new information that indicated O’Connor played a larger role in the incident. Norwich Police officers re-interviewed O’Connor in November of 2007 over the new allegations and she refused to answer any further questions.
O’Connor was eventually arrested Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 on these additional allegations, along with Sacco.
Those allegations were the ones included in the criminal complaint filed by the U.S. District Court in Binghamton. They claimed a long history of abuse regarding the victim at the hands O’Connor, who allegedly reared the 11-year-old girl into a life of sexual molestation and unwitting prostitution. It accuses O’Connor of selling the victim to different men she would meet at Best Western Hotel in Binghamton. The charges also included the young girl being used by O’Connor in her personal relationships with other men.
The complaint offers testimony that O’Connor was present at many of the rapes and often participated in the acts against or with the victim. The complaint also charges that she recorded several of these instances. One of the instances cites that O’Connor received $150 in exchange for the girl as she remained in the room and ate a donut. One of the rapes mentioned in the complaint said it purposely arranged on the girl’s birthday as a “gift.”
Sacco was one among the men named in the indictment. The complaint also mentions more men by name and a few others who remain unknown. Sacco however is the only one currently charged in the criminal complaint.
Sacco had been in jail and was scheduled to appear in court this week for the Chenango County charges against him. The court adjourned his trial yesterday pending the results of the federal case. He and O’Connor will now appear in federal court to answer to the charges against them.
The two appeared yesterday at 1:30 at the U.S. District Court in Binghamton and were incarcerated pending their next appearance.
Linda O’Connor, 46, of Norwich, and Dean Sacco, 49, originally of Jersey City, N.J., were arrested Sunday by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and charged with several child abuse and sex charges.
“They’re being charged with a number of different federal charges including buying and selling of a child, production of child pornography, traveling interstate to engage in sexual acts with a child, and also possession of child pornography,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Miro Lovric.
The female victim, who is now 14, told police that she was threatened if she refused to comply. The charges in the complaint allegedly took place between 2006 and 2007.
Sacco and O’Connor had their names first tied together by authorities Nov. 26 of 2006, following a complaint by the victim to the Department of Social Services that she was “very uncomfortable” around Sacco and found him “creepy.” Following the complaint, Family Court Judge W. Howard Sullivan issued an order to O’Connor to keep the victim away from Sacco.
However, on March 22, 2007, the Norwich Police Department arrested O’Connor for not obeying the order after receiving a second complaint from the girl that Sacco had raped her. O’Connor was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal contempt.
“There was a court order issued by Judge Sullivan, November 22 of 2006, not to let (victim) to be in the presence of Dean Sacco unsupervised. I ignored the order because I trusted Dean and did not see any reason to follow it,” said O’Connor in her statement to police at the time.
O’Connor also said that if she had known Sacco was having an “improper relationship” with the victim, she would have stopped it and had him arrested.
The victim was then removed from the her custody.
Following O’Connor’s arrest, police investigators focused on Sacco and had the victim place a controlled call to him while he was in New Jersey.
“Sacco admitted in substance, that he had sexual contact with the victim,” said Special FBI Agent James T. Lyons Jr., in written testimony.
Sacco was later arrested in New Jersey on March 19, 2007 after apparently attempting suicide, Lyons said in the federal complaint.
Sacco was then transported back to Chenango and charged with several sex crimes, including three counts of first degree rape.
The District Attorney’s Office later said Sacco was the landlord at the victim’s residence and allegedly exploited the girl sexually in exchange for rent reductions. Investigators declined to answer questions regarding O’Connor’s involvement at the time, saying it was an open case.
Police continued to investigate the crimes and uncovered new information that indicated O’Connor played a larger role in the incident. Norwich Police officers re-interviewed O’Connor in November of 2007 over the new allegations and she refused to answer any further questions.
O’Connor was eventually arrested Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 on these additional allegations, along with Sacco.
Those allegations were the ones included in the criminal complaint filed by the U.S. District Court in Binghamton. They claimed a long history of abuse regarding the victim at the hands O’Connor, who allegedly reared the 11-year-old girl into a life of sexual molestation and unwitting prostitution. It accuses O’Connor of selling the victim to different men she would meet at Best Western Hotel in Binghamton. The charges also included the young girl being used by O’Connor in her personal relationships with other men.
The complaint offers testimony that O’Connor was present at many of the rapes and often participated in the acts against or with the victim. The complaint also charges that she recorded several of these instances. One of the instances cites that O’Connor received $150 in exchange for the girl as she remained in the room and ate a donut. One of the rapes mentioned in the complaint said it purposely arranged on the girl’s birthday as a “gift.”
Sacco was one among the men named in the indictment. The complaint also mentions more men by name and a few others who remain unknown. Sacco however is the only one currently charged in the criminal complaint.
Sacco had been in jail and was scheduled to appear in court this week for the Chenango County charges against him. The court adjourned his trial yesterday pending the results of the federal case. He and O’Connor will now appear in federal court to answer to the charges against them.
The two appeared yesterday at 1:30 at the U.S. District Court in Binghamton and were incarcerated pending their next appearance.
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