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Cops: Levittown Man Downloaded Video Chats of Child Porn

Videos depicting young girls with an adult man were downloaded between November and January, police say.

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A Levittown man faces child pornography charges after he downloaded several video chat recordings of a man engaging in sexual acts with young children, according to Nassau County Police.

Charles Powers, 54, used his personal computer to download multiple explicit videos from a live internet video chat website, detectives said.

The digital files depicted several young girls between the ages of 5 and 8 performing sexual acts with an unidentified adult male, police said.

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Powers pulled the videos onto his computer between Nov. 16 and Jan. 10, cops said.

Investigators were led to Powers, who was arrested at his home Monday, police said.

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Powers was charged with five counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child and five counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child. He will be arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead.

Photo: Charles Powers. Credit: NCPD

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