Date: 12-20-2023

Case Style:

United States of America v. Johnny Roman

Case Number: 1:21-cr-00190

Judge: J. Paul Oetken

Court:

United States District Court for Southern District of New York

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office in New York City

Defendant's Attorney:

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New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with Sexual Exploitation Of Children

Since at least 2020, ROMAN used multiple fake online personas to contact young women about the prospect of a “job” sexting with an older man on encrypted messaging applications and to manipulate the women into creating disturbing pornographic videos in which they performed oral sex on minors, many of them infants or toddlers. ROMAN communicated with at least 3,000 different women on one user account alone. Through that broad outreach, at least eight individuals performed oral sex on minor victims based on ROMAN’s requests or threats. At least 11 minor victims — ranging from 16 years old to four months old — were victims of ROMAN’s criminal conduct, which resulted in the creation of over 50 videos in which women performed oral sex on minors.

On December 22, 2020, ROMAN was arrested on the instant charges. While detained, ROMAN continued to induce women to film themselves performing oral sex on minors using at least three contraband cellphones.

18:2251.F SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
(1s)

18:371.F CONSPIRACY TO SEXUALLY EXPLOIT CHILDREN
(2s)

18:371.F CONSPIRACY TO SEXUALLY EXPLOIT CHILDREN
(3s)

Outcome: IMPRISONMENT: 240 months on count 1 to run concurrent with 60 months on count 2 and 60 months on count 3 to run concurrently with each other, for a total of 240 months. SUPERVISED RELEASE: Lifetime on all counts concurrently.

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