A Brooklyn cop charged with uploading kiddie porn from the
Internet has been re-arrested after the feds discovered he was also making
sexually explicit videos of children in his home.
Alberto Yard, 44, allegedly took pictures of naked children
in his bedroom and also installed a secret camera in the bathroom to record
children showering and using the toilet, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney
Margaret Gandy.
The prosecutor called the new evidence a "shocking turn
of events" discovered by FBI agents reviewing 10 cell phones and three
laptop computers seized when Yard was arrested July 2.
"He is a danger to society," Gandy said of the
sicko who worked in Brooklyn Civil Court on Livingston St.
The videos shot in Yard's bedroom of an underage girl and
boy appeared to have been made in 2007, according to the complaint.
Five of the children have been identified and there are
"many more," Gandy said.
Yard, a 19-year-veteran who lives in East New York with his
parents, was also taking voyeuristic pictures of unsuspecting young girls in
the courthouse while on-duty, but those pictures did not rise to the level of
federal crimes.
Yard, whose became a gun control activist after his
17-year-old daughter Nyasia was shot dead at a Brooklyn club in 2009, is facing
at least 15 years in prison if he's convicted.
He may also be hit with additional weapons charges because
agents found three illegal handguns in his bedroom including one with a defaced
serial number.
Magistrate Ramon Reyes revoked Yard's $750,000 and ordered
that he be held in protective custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in
Brooklyn.