These are the arrest or booking photos provided by Long Island law enforcement officials. A criminal charge is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty before a jury of the accused's peers.
Undated photo of Ralph Demayo. The Crimes Against Property Squad reports the arrest of a Glen Cove man on Tuesday, 5/13/08 for possession of child pornography. According to detectives, a joint investigation conducted by the Internet Child Exploitation Section of the CAP Squad in conjunction with the New York State Police Computer Crimes Unit led to the arrest of Ralph A. Demayo 22, for possession of child pornography on his computer. This investigation was generated after several National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Cyber Tipline reports were filed in October 2007. On May 13, Demayo was arrested at his residence and a laptop computer was seized which was used by the defendant to receive and distribute numerous images and videos of child pornography. Demayo was charged with 2 counts of Promoting Sex Performance of a Child and 9 counts of Possession of Sex performance of a Child. He will be arraigned in First District Court, 99 Main Street, Hempstead on 5/14/08.
(Handout / May 14, 2008)