Saddle River lawyer admits to sex trafficking of young boy across Europe,
child porn distribution
By James Kleimann December 19, 2013
NEWARK — A
prominent Bergen County corporate lawyer has pleaded guilty to the sex
trafficking of a six-year-old boy across Europe, while separately admitting that
he had distributed hundreds of graphic images and videos of child porn, some of
which depicted small children being raped.
Edward M. De Sear, 67, of
Saddle River, was sentenced in Newark federal court on Thursday to 17.5 years in
prison, and was ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution to his victims, U.S.
Attorney Paul Fishman said Thursday. He pleaded guilty to one count of sex
trafficking of a child and four counts of distribution of child
pornography.
According to federal prosecutors, De Sear, who was formerly
a partner at New York firm Allen & Overy, paid a man cash in June of 2011 to
travel with his six-year-old son from Paris to Brussels, Belgium, where he
sexually abused the boy....
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