Teacher Gets 3 Months in Jail After Trying to Make Porn with Teen

You may recall, with revulsion, the arrest last January of 27-year-old Brighton Beach high school teacher Alexander Kravitz, who was busted in a Queens hotel room where he hoped to make a porn video with a 14-year-old girl. But the girl did not exist—Kravitz had been communicating with an undercover detective online for six weeks, using the screen name EVRYDAYGURLS to send lurid messages and X-rated video to the "girl." After the arrest, police found a porno collection which included images of sex with children ranging from in age from 13 to infants...stashed in the Gravesend house he shared with his mother and sister.

Anyway, Kravitz was looking at a possible four year prison sentence, but yesterday he pleaded guilty to attempting to disseminate indecent material to a minor, as part of a deal for a 90-day jail term and five years' probation. The Daily News reports that Kravitz will also have to turn over his computer, forfeit his teaching license, and register as a sex offender. Infants, dude.

But some, apparently, think this whole thing is just a big misunderstanding—as one commenter on BadBadTeacher.com explains, "After they arrested Mr Kravitz they realized they did not have a common pedophile. They had a hard working young guy with a strong sense of curiosity to get to the bottom of this FAKE 14 year old girl that he KNEW wasn’t a 14 year old girl. SO Sgt. Robert Minca and the rest of his LINCH mob began to weave a web of lies and false truths in order to make his case look Just. I have dealt with these ENTRAPPERS before online I would get random Instant messages in chat rooms or from posts."

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By John Del Signore in News on January 6, 2010 9:39 AM

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potsmoker

i know a guy whos always catching kiddie porn owners at work when he audits their computers. (audit is a nice way of saying being a nosey spy looking at all your pictures and videos before returning it after installing office & vpn) its a good money making opportunity, they have never once said no way jose, they always say what can i do to keep this quiet and the money in a envelope appears. depending on the position and payrate the higher the amount..dont bother calling the cops, they know and refuse to do anything about it, and dont like to mess with the well connected muckymucks with $ and good lawyers, and he was threatened with getting fired if he told anybody. so now he make bucks taking advantage of pedos.

three months jail, i bet its because the porn he had on the computer came from the cops sending it to them.

as an IT pro, i also make good money setting up proxies and encryption and disk cleaning services to people who want total privacy. to hide tax, medical or private data.

just ask me how. i just dont ask why, and thats perfectly legal.

Snakefist Von Thunderplug

Lenny must be so disappointed.

butterbutter

I think it's hilarious that after soooo many shows and news reports about guys getting busted trying to have sex with a 'under cover cop', that these morons haven't figured it out yet.

Again... Natural selection at work....

hotstepper

so i'm thinking, how does an officer train to become an undercover horny web tween? is this something they learn in the academy? in any case it sounds like a pretty sick person that could do that on a regular basis.

NannyState

It's difficult at first, but they eventually develop a taste for it.

babyhitler

Yeah this is fucked up but parents need to parent their teenage daughters. I remember a decade ago when AOL was cool I used to get bombarded with IM's from horny tween girls like Miley Cyrus. It's got to be worse now during the age of facebook and myspace. The internets filled with dumb tween girls! that's the disturbing thing. Not only are they receptive but they go looking for companionship on the internet. That's why you got to watch your kids like a hawk.

jaycjay

"Yeah this is fucked up but parents need to parent their teenage daughters."

Right! This is what happens when nonexistent parents don't keep an eye on their fictional daughters.

JacqueMehoff

you know what I found weird?

the teen girls would show themselves with their face but for some reason the boys only show a cropped picture removing their face?

I wonder why?????

Listen up Teen Girls, do not show your face until the guy shows his. I don't care if he shows you he has a 12 pack abs or what the crap.

Steven

Or they have these very revealing photos of themselves wearing next to nothing.

Females at that age like it when guys give them the attention of the day.

DaSaint

I love it when they catch fools like this. 3 months is not enough. I do hope that whatever prison he goes to, they will enlighten him on street justice.

Dirk

Ninety days? That's it for having porn with infants?

They should just cut of his privates and let him bleed out.

boomshanka

Yeah 90 days, makes you wonder what kind of evidence investigators really have. Would anyone be surprised if detectives were lying to the press?

whitecastlerock

Even if he has ONE picture of child porn he still should be castrated

boomshanka

well, he didn't plead to possessing child porn, only for "attempting to disseminate indecent material to a minor."

Apparently the only minor involved was the undercover cop posing as a minor. My hunch is that the child porn accusation is bullshit, or he would get more than 90 days.

JacqueMehoff

ha! so that's how they do it,

keep bombarding chatrooms till something bites.

oh the old days of IRC.

if you get caught now, you're just too stupid to play the game. I'm guessing he's tame compared to the real sickos out there who has not been caught.