Rochester Firefighter Receives Lengthy Prison Sentence on Child Porn Charges

Posted by: Curt Varone 26 days ago 0

A former Rochester, New York firefighter has been sentenced to 17 ½ years in prison on child pornography related charges. Brett Marrapese pled guilty in July, 2024 to federal charges that he received and distributed child porn. He was sentenced last week.

According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York:

  • Marrapese used a cell phone, laptop computer, an email account, and multiple social media and internet chat applications, including Omegle; Kik; Snapchat; and Instagram, to produce, receive, distribute, and possess child pornography.
  • In total, Marrapese received more than 600 images of child pornography that he obtained from others via the internet.
  • He also posed as a teenage boy causing minors to produce and send to him sexually explicit images of themselves.
  • Some of the images that Marrapese distributed and received depicted violence against and sexual abuse of children, infants, and toddlers.

Marrapese reportedly used the internet connection at his Rochester firehouse to share some of the content.

About Curt Varone

Curt Varone has over 45 years of fire service experience and 35 as a practicing attorney licensed in both Rhode Island and Maine. His background includes 29 years as a career firefighter in Providence (retiring as a Deputy Assistant Chief), as well as volunteer and paid on call experience. He is the author of two books: Legal Considerations for Fire and Emergency Services, (2006, 2nd ed. 2011, 3rd ed. 2014, 4th ed. 2022) and Fire Officer's Legal Handbook (2007), and is a contributing editor for Firehouse Magazine writing the Fire Law column.
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