A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing three young girls, including an 18-month-old toddler, and videotaping the acts assaults at his home.
David Csanadi, 36, of Newtown, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in New Haven after entering a guilty plea in November to one count of producing child pornography.
The Connecticut Post reports that Assistant U.S. Attorney Neeraj Patel called Csanadi a ‘monster who crept into the bedrooms of little girls at night.'
‘The monster who visited these girls was not a figment of these little girls' imagination. The monster was real,’ the prosecutor said.
Csanadi also has pleaded guilty to state sexual assault and child pornography charges and is set to be sentenced to a concurrent 20-year prison term on April 2.
After serving his sentence, Csanadi will be subject to 15 years of supervised release
According to prosecutors, the abuse targeting an 18-month-old, a four-and-a-half-year-old and another girl under the age of 12 happened inside Csanadi's Newtown home and in Rhode Island.
The 36-year-old has been jailed since April 5, 2011, when he was arrested on three counts of first-degree sexual assault, risk of injury or impairing the morals of children, illegal sexual contact with a child, and one count of third-degree possession of child porn.
Prosecutors described in court one of the videos recorded by Csanadi depicting his abuse of the 18-month-old baby in her bedroom during a nap.
'She couldn't speak or walk,' US Attorney Patel told Judge Janet Bond Arterton. 'She couldn't run away or tell someone. She couldn't tell the defendant to stop.'
FBI agents working with police identified two other prepubescent girls in the 25 homemade pornographic videos they seized from Csanadi's home in April 2011.
Other recordings depicted young girls playing on the beach, dancing, selling lemonade and stepping off a school bus.
In each of the tapes, the lens zooms in on the children's chest, groin, buttocks and feet. Officials also found 5,000 child pornographic images on his computers, among them S & M scenes.
During Csanadi's sentencing, the judge noted that the defendant abused the children of his friends, with their parents completely unaware of the criminal betrayal of their trust.
Csanadi was arrested in 2011 after officials with FBI's Childhood Exploitation Taskforce investigating a website determined that the 36-year-old man was downloading child pornography.
A search of his Newtown home on April 8 netted the videos showing Csanadi abusing little girls. Csanadi's attorney Paul Thomas said in court that his client is 'not a monster,' adding that he has feelings of deep remorse for what he had done.
'He is horrified by his conduct,' the public defender said before recommending that Csanadi be sent to a treatment program for sexual offenders in Massachusetts.
Csanadi's father, a retired police officer, addressed the court before his son's sentencing, telling the judge that the 36-year-old man has turned his life around after overcoming a cocaine addiction on his own.
Csanadi's attorney read a statement on his client's behalf, saying in part that he has spent every day thinking about his wrongdoings.In the course of the hearing, an aunt of one of the underage victims gave a statement, telling the court that the defendant 'acted like a thief in the night' stealing her niece's innocence during a sleepover.
‘Mr Csanadi may have a chance to leave prison one day, but my family and I can never walk away from what happened,’ she said.
The 36-year-old Newtown resident later said in court that he did not know why he committed the horrendous crimes, comparing the accessibility of internet pornography to 'putting alcohol in front of an alcoholic.'
Federal prosecutors say Csanadi abused the children of his friends in 2006 and 2007 and recorded the assaults on video. Officials say he also downloaded child porn from the Internet onto his home computer.
Detestable crimes: David Csanadi, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing three young girls and videotaping the acts
The Connecticut Post reports that Assistant U.S. Attorney Neeraj Patel called Csanadi a ‘monster who crept into the bedrooms of little girls at night.'
‘The monster who visited these girls was not a figment of these little girls' imagination. The monster was real,’ the prosecutor said.
Csanadi also has pleaded guilty to state sexual assault and child pornography charges and is set to be sentenced to a concurrent 20-year prison term on April 2.
After serving his sentence, Csanadi will be subject to 15 years of supervised release
According to prosecutors, the abuse targeting an 18-month-old, a four-and-a-half-year-old and another girl under the age of 12 happened inside Csanadi's Newtown home and in Rhode Island.
The 36-year-old has been jailed since April 5, 2011, when he was arrested on three counts of first-degree sexual assault, risk of injury or impairing the morals of children, illegal sexual contact with a child, and one count of third-degree possession of child porn.
Abomination: One of Csanadi's victims was an 18-month-old girl whom he sexually abused while she was down for her nap, while two others were children of friends ages five years old and younger than 12
House of horrors: The abuse happened at Csanadi's Newtown home, where he also stored the pornographic videos
Prosecutors described in court one of the videos recorded by Csanadi depicting his abuse of the 18-month-old baby in her bedroom during a nap.
'She couldn't speak or walk,' US Attorney Patel told Judge Janet Bond Arterton. 'She couldn't run away or tell someone. She couldn't tell the defendant to stop.'
FBI agents working with police identified two other prepubescent girls in the 25 homemade pornographic videos they seized from Csanadi's home in April 2011.
Other recordings depicted young girls playing on the beach, dancing, selling lemonade and stepping off a school bus.
In each of the tapes, the lens zooms in on the children's chest, groin, buttocks and feet. Officials also found 5,000 child pornographic images on his computers, among them S & M scenes.
During Csanadi's sentencing, the judge noted that the defendant abused the children of his friends, with their parents completely unaware of the criminal betrayal of their trust.
Csanadi was arrested in 2011 after officials with FBI's Childhood Exploitation Taskforce investigating a website determined that the 36-year-old man was downloading child pornography.
A search of his Newtown home on April 8 netted the videos showing Csanadi abusing little girls. Csanadi's attorney Paul Thomas said in court that his client is 'not a monster,' adding that he has feelings of deep remorse for what he had done.
Justice: During sentencing in New Haven, the prosecutor called Csanadi a 'monster' while on of the victims' relatives said that he stole her niece's innocence like a 'thief in the night'
Csanadi's father, a retired police officer, addressed the court before his son's sentencing, telling the judge that the 36-year-old man has turned his life around after overcoming a cocaine addiction on his own.
Csanadi's attorney read a statement on his client's behalf, saying in part that he has spent every day thinking about his wrongdoings.In the course of the hearing, an aunt of one of the underage victims gave a statement, telling the court that the defendant 'acted like a thief in the night' stealing her niece's innocence during a sleepover.
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