Absolutely too disgusting for words.....an illegal Guatemalan hires himself out to children's birthday parties and is a pedophile....


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Westbury party clown arrested on child porn charges

BY SOPHIA CHANG

sophia.chang@newsday.com

7:26 PM EDT, April 16, 2008
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A Westbury man who moonlighted as a children's party clown was arrested on charges of possessing and promoting child pornography, Nassau police said Wednesday.

Alexander Zacarias, 40, of Sherman Street, was arraigned on nine counts of promoting sexual performance of a child and nine counts of possession of sexual performance of a child in First District Court in Hempstead Wednesday. He was held on bail of $400,000 bond or $200,000 cash, and is due back in court Friday.

Police said there was no evidence that Zacarias ever abused or photographed any children. Attempts to reach Zacarias' family were unsuccessful Wednesday. He was represented by the Nassau Legal Aid Society, which could not be reached Wednesday.

Zacarias, a Guatemalan national who is undocumented, came to New York several years ago and worked full-time as a truck-washer at a Westbury company, said Det. Sgt. Thomas Reilly at a news conference in Mineola Wednesday.

In January, state and county police were tracking the online distribution of child pornography and found an IP address that identified Zacarias' computer, Reilly said.

When police went to his home to arrest him last Tuesday, they confiscated six desktop and laptop computers and related accessories in the residence, Reilly said. Zacarias may have used them to upload and download hundreds of pictures of child pornography, some with infants, Reilly said.

Zacarias made "admissions" to police about the pornography, Reilly said.

Zacarias' side gig came to light when "we were doing a search of the home and we found a pair of clown shoes," Reilly said.

Investigators learned that he sometimes worked as a clown at private children's birthday parties in Hispanic neighborhoods, Reilly said.

"He does have access to kids," Reilly said. Zacarias also lived in a rooming house shared with several children, including infants, but none have reported abuse, Reilly said.

At the news conference, Reilly showed a copy of Zacarias' business cards for his gigs, festooned with a cheerful smiling clown holding balloons. In Spanish, the cards said that Zacarias was available to host children's parties.

Zacarias faces deportation if he is convicted, police said.

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