Eastie Man Arraigned on Child Sexual Assault, Child Pornography Charges

The East Boston man indicted by Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollin’s for sexually assaulting one child, enticing another to create child pornography for him, and transmitting dozens of graphic sexual images of minors through a smartphone application was held pending a dangerousness hearing following his arraignment last Wednesday.

Domenic D’Amore, 29, of East Boston was indicted last month with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14; four counts of trafficking in persons for sexual servitude; four counts of dissemination of matter harmful to a minor; three counts of posing a child in a state of nudity; eight counts of dissemination of child pornography; two counts of possession of child pornography; and two counts of possession with intent to distribute child pornography.

His dangerousness hearing is scheduled for May 8.

D’Amore was initially charged and arraigned in January in Chelsea District Court after Revere pawn shop workers found child pornography on a phone D’Amore had sold.

According to the District Attorney’s Office, back in December workers at a Revere pawn shop notified Revere Police that they found images depicting child pornography on a phone that D’Amore, the defendant, allegedly sold at the business.

A forensic examination of that phone and a second phone belonging to D’Amore revealed hundreds of graphic images and videos of children being sexually abused or posed in a sexual manner. Prosecutors said that D’Amore had shared and received similar graphic images through the Kik app on multiple occasions, including a single day in November during which he allegedly shared at least 75 files containing child pornography.

Detectives also became aware that an email service provider filed two CyberTips with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and that each reported separate instances of images identified as child pornography being uploaded to an email account.

Police determined that the email account belonged to D’Amore.

In messages sent on Kik, D’Amore allegedly made statements that he had sexually abused a young child. The child underwent a forensic interview at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County and disclosed abuse by D’Amore.

D’Amore is also charged with trafficking in persons for sexual servitude for allegedly enticing a teenage victim to create child pornography. In a text exchange discovered on a second phone belonging to the defendant, he allegedly made statements offering to pay the victim in return for sexual images and acts and instructed the teen to pose nude in photos. In addition to receiving those photographs from the victim,  D’Amore is also accused of sending sexual images to the child.

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