A convicted pedophile was caught taking photos of a 9-year-old girl in Borough Park and cops are trying to find out if he had illicit contact with other children.
David Zimmer, 40 was arrested Jan. 2 for photographing the child in the hallway of the Brooklyn building where they both live.
The neighborhood locksmith was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and harassment, police said.
The picture was not lewd, but he is not supposed to have contact with children, police said.
Zimmer is registered as a sex offender
.He was arrested in March 1999 for sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl.
After his arrest last week, he told cops he had photographed children in the past, said a police source.
Investigators seized his home computer but it’s unclear if they found anything of importance.
“None of the pictures he took were inappropriate,” Zimmer’s brother told the Daily News. “My brother is a very kind, sweet person.”
Zimmer’s father shrugged off his son’s earlier conviction, claiming he had been entrapped by a 10-year-old “prostitute.”
“The police have nothing,” Izzy Zimmer said. “It wasn’t his camera.”
Police asked anyone who knows of children that may have been in contact with Zimmer to call the NYPD confidential CrimesStoppers tipline at 1-(800)-577-TIPS.
OMg he's my neighbor, and we all know to stay far from him. He's a registered sex offender so what more do they need to know?
ReplyDeleteThere is an active operation that has been successful uncovering this sort of crime in the very tight knit and insular Hasidic community. Kudos to those who have worked hard to get people to come forward and report these crimes in that community.
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