PA and CT – Imp’s Note: This article involves one of our members and her family. Thanks to BluExtacy for her help, photos and input. Nicholas Pinto, 27, fancies himself quite the photographer. This past summer, he traveled from his home in Connecticut to visit friends in Pennsylvania. He took along a small duffel of clothes, and a bigger duffel of camera equipment. What Nicholas Pinto did over the next two weeks landed him in jail in Pennsylvania. And at least one of his charges relates to the child of one of our members. In late June, Nicholas Pinto left Stratford, Connecticut to visit our member BluExtacy and her family in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. He arrived at the home with more camera equipment than he had clothes, which didn’t seem that unusual to his hosts. Blue has known Nick for nearly fifteen years, since she was a kid in Connecticut. She tells us that she had no reason to believe that Pinto was a risk for her or her foster son – or any of the children who came with their parents to visit during the time he was there.
Blue and her husband were just three months away from adopting their foster child when Pinto, also known as Issac Becks, arrived at the home. Within a couple of weeks, all that changed.
Neighbors noticed that Pinto seemed always to be outside with his camera equipment, shooting pictures. Thing is, he didn’t seem to be shooting the landscape, although when pressed he said he was taking test shots of the summer sky. Which was a little odd, since there weren’t any children in the summer sky, and kids seemed to be the focal point of most of Pinto’s photographs.
One night during his visit, Blue and her husband had gone to bed. Nick Pinto went into the room where Blue’s foster son slept, and told him they were going to “make a Youtube video”. The boy, old enough to understand Youtube (but still a preteen child), willingly went with the family friend to the basement. Once they got there, Pinto tied the boy in various types of bondage, telling the child that the video was just for fun. The boy wasn’t physically harmed and went back to bed after the “shoot”, seemingly unaware that anything was seriously amiss. As a result, Blue says she didn’t know there had been anything weird going on.
Later, Blue’s foster son would tell her that he thought Pinto was “making a movie about children in prison”.
On at least two other occasions, Pinto removed small houseguests – ages four and five – from the beds where they were sleeping. Pinto was so quiet – so careful – that both children were taken from beds where their mothers slept alongside them. Blue says that the parents hadn’t even been drinking, so they were asleep normally, not passed out or otherwise zonked. Yet Pinto managed to slip the preschoolers away; one on one night, one on another. Twice he crept into guest rooms; twice he took small children to the basement to play the bondage game. Twice he took pictures – and at least once, he molested a child while he was at it. The photographs depict the children in sexual positions, bound, sometimes gagged.
Nobody in the house was aware. No child said anything. Until the beginning of July, when Pinto had been at the home for about two weeks.
A group of children were swimming in a neighborhood pool when Nick Pinto began taking pictures of them. One of the boys went and told his uncle that there was a guy taking pictures, and it was making him feel weird. Police were called, and arrived to find Pinto in Blue’s yard with his camera equipment set up.
When an investigator walked up to Nicholas Pinto, he caught Pinto looking at images stored on his camera. Right there in the yard, Pinto was checking out a shot of a young boy who was bound and gagged. A piece of electrical tape was covering the child’s eyes. Pinto was arrested and initially charged with two counts of child pornography (one for manufacture, the other for possession) while an investigation was done.
After securing warrants for the digital cameras, a video camera and bondage equipment, Blue’s house was turned upside down. Child and Youth Services removed her foster son from her care. And a state police forensics unit got data from the cameras that showed numerous pornographic images and movies of children. The victims ranged from age 4 to 12.
After a month-long investigation, Nicholas Pinto was charged with 87 counts of manufacture and possession of child pornography.
Nicholas Pinto is currently languishing in the Lackawanna County Prison on $25,000 bond. The case was booted from the Pennsylvania Magisterial District Court in August and is now in the hands of the FBI and the US Attorney General’s Office. From the sound of things, I don’t think Nick Pinto or his photographer alter-ego Issac Becks will be getting out anytime soon.
From here, the rest is BluExtacy’s story to tell. Our thoughts are with her – and her son.
( I wish I could keep my kids under lock and key forever…
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i try to ignore it.. but sometimes i can’t gotta say something.. thank god there are nice people like you here too to offset the assholes.
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