New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
A Billerica man pleaded guilty on Wednesdayin federal court in Boston to sexually exploiting two young boys over a five and a half year period.
Philip Toronto, 43, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of children. U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled sentencing for Feb. 15, 2018.
On Feb. 28, 2017, a search warrant was executed at Toronto’s home in response to multiple CyberTips that tracked the trade of child pornography over Skype to Toronto’s Billerica address. The search revealed evidence of child pornography during a preliminary on-scene review. Law enforcement confronted Toronto with evidence that some of the child pornography appeared to be homemade, and Toronto admitted to filming his sexual abuse of two young boys: a five-year-old boy as recently as September 2016; and a 10-year-old boy a few years earlier. More extensive forensic review of the devices seized from the home revealed surreptitious recordings of the children in various stages of undress as well as videos and images of Toronto raping and indecently assaulting each of the boys.
