Married Long Island healthcare exec accused of preying on nearly a dozen teen girls to produce child porn

A married Nassau County healthcare executive allegedly preyed on nearly a dozen teen girls to produce child porn over a four-year period — including two minors he ordered to call him “daddy” and paid in exchange for the sickening content.Jacob Walden, 38, was arraigned Wednesday morning in Central Islip Federal Court on a six-count indictment charging him with the sexual exploitation of two teens — ages 16 and 17 — he pressured to create sexually explicit videos and photos, according to the US Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of New York.Feds recovered the disturbing images from Walden’s cell phone last April and identified at least 11 girls, as young as 14 years old, whom he contacted, coerced to send inappropriate content and paid, according to court documents.The 16- and 17-year-old victims were located and interviewed during an investigation feds launched in September 2023.“As alleged, the defendant enticed minors to produce sexually explicit photographs and videos of themselves and send them to him via the internet in exchange for payment,” United States Attorney John J.

Durham said in a statement.“Protecting children from predators who sexually exploit them will always be a priority of my Office.”Investigators further found Walden, a father of five, repeatedly purchased at least 500 images and 5,000 videos depicting rape, bestiality and the abuse of toddler-aged children from a large-scale production and distribution ring that advertised to adult male buyers in the US and aboard, according to court docs.Law enforcement also recovered an encrypted conversation on Walden’s phone arranging the purchase of two child porn packages — one of which was advertised to include “4-19, FAMILY, SOLO, RAPE, MIXED” content, the documents state.Prosecutors said at least 20,500 files of child porn were found in Walden’s cloud storage, court docs revealed.Walden, the co-owner and managing partner of Emerald Healthcare, a company that man...