By Jonathan Lemire
New York Daily News
Copyright 2008 New York Daily News
NEW YORK — A Staten Island emergency medical technician was charged Wednesday with sending e-mails containing child pornography videos, officials said.
Edward Cosenza, 44, was arraigned on three counts of promoting and possessing a sexual performance by a child Wednesday in Staten Island Criminal Court.
Cosenza, who has been with the FDNY for 14 years, admitted to detectives that he used his America Online account on Oct. 24 to send out two explicit videos of minors having sex, according to the criminal complaint.
One of the videos shows a pair of 15-year-old girls having sex with each other before one of them engages in sexual activities with a 10-year-old boy. The other depicts an 11-year-old girl having sex with an adult male, the complaint says.
The videos have been designated as child pornography by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to the complaint. It was not immediately known how Cosenza obtained the films.
Cosenza, who is assigned to EMS Station 4 on the lower East Side, was suspended without pay, an FDNY spokesman said.
A woman answering the phone at Cosenza’s house refused comment.