Crime & Safety

Grand Jury Indicts Man Charged With Having Sex With Boy, 13

David Boutin, of West Hempstead, allegedly met the boy through CraigsList.

A man charged with having sex with a teenaged boy he met on the internet is slated to be arraigned on a grand jury indictment today in Suffolk County criminal court in Riverhead.

Police arrested David Boutin, 42, a financial planner who lives in West Hempstead, on Aug. 17 when, during a search for a stolen motorbike, they allegedly found him with a 13-year-old boy in the backseat of the his car. Boutin was parked on a remote utility access road in the Wading River/Shoreham area, on Long Island Power Authority property, located north of Route 25A in Shoreham.

Boutin was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree criminal sexual act.

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Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said that Boutin allegedly began communicating with the teen through CraigsList in April.

Boutin is expected to appear before Judge Barbara Kahn; the calendar is called for 9:30 a.m.

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