N.Y. Instructor Allegedly Used Snapchat to Solicit Specific Materials from Minors: Police

One New York trainer has been charged and pleaded not responsible to 11 sex-related crime fees, after allegedly posing as a minor when asking minors for pornographic photos, in accordance with court docket data obtained by PEOPLE.

Ryan McCaffery, 37, was charged with three counts of disseminating indecent materials to minors within the first diploma, three counts of tried use of a kid in a sexual efficiency who’s beneath 17 years outdated, three counts of performing in a fashion injurious to a baby beneath 17, in addition to one rely for selling a sexual efficiency by a baby beneath 17 and one other rely of possession of sexual efficiency by a baby, in accordance with New York State Police (NYSP) news release.

In January 2025, a search warrant was executed, and a number of other of McCaffery’s digital gadgets had been seized from his residence in suspected reference to sexual on-line chat conversations with juvenile victims beneath the age of 13 in 2022 in Bergen County, N.J. He allegedly communicated with a sufferer beneath the age of 13, whereas “purporting to be a juvenile however suspected to be an grownup male,” per the Bergen County, N.J., Prosecutors’ Workplace on Friday, Feb. 14, news release.

McCaffery was then interviewed by the NYSP Bureau of Legal Investigations (BCI) and Bergen County, N.J., Prosecutors’ Workplace. He was subsequently arrested in February 2025 and charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault, two counts of third-degree little one endangerment, and two counts of fourth-degree lewdness, in accordance with the workplace’s information launch.

McCaffery, a former Riverhead Excessive Faculty social research trainer and coach, resigned from the Riverhead Central Faculty District on Feb. 5 — simply 9 days earlier than he was arrested in Bergen County. Interim Superintendent Cheryl Pedisich mentioned in a Monday, Could 12, assertion that fees in opposition to McCaffery don’t contain college students from Riverhead Excessive Faculty, per Riverhead Local.

After his arrest in New Jersey, the NYSP’s Laptop Crime Unit and the Suffolk County District Legal professional’s Workplace executed a number of search warrants and subpoenas. Consequently, it was discovered {that a} stranger, who was later revealed to be McCaffery, “was requesting nude images and fascinating in sexual acts whereas video chatting with victims on Snapchat,” per the NYSP.

Over the previous a number of months, the NYSP BCI continued investigating him concerning December 2024 allegations. On Monday, Could 12, he surrendered himself to the NYSP in Riverside, N.Y. He was arrested, charged and transported to Suffolk County First District Court docket for arraignment.

McCaffery is scheduled to look in New Jersey court docket on Thursday, Could 15, and Monday, June 16 in Lengthy Island, N.Y.

This investigation is ongoing. Any mum or dad or guardian who believes their little one acquired inappropriate communications from the Snapchat username “C_chambers77” ought to contact the New York State Police at 631-756-3300.

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